[Bluntpoint]

Let me be gentler.

When the U.N. had a willing partner in Clinton, there was not a lot of noise coming out of the Vatican as to the effectiveness of the U.N.

[Desdemona]

When the U.N. had a willing partner in Clinton, there was not a lot of noise coming out of the Vatican as to the effectiveness of the U.N.

Bernardin was still alive then. This might have been his influence.

[ninenot]

The Vatican did not then, and does not now, guide our foreign policy.

X42 was a traitor in several ways, and Monicagate was only the tip of the iceberg. The "UN" action in Bosnia was one of the dumbest moves ever made by mankind--on a par with the UN's LACK of movement in Africa.

JPII has plenty of reasons to indicate that the UN is a box of rocks--but perhaps a good model, if filled with good people.