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U.N Should Change---or U.S Should Quit.
LA Times / American Enterprise Institute ^ | 1/23/2004 | David Frum and Richard Perle

Posted on 01/23/2004 6:21:17 AM PST by Redcoat LI

Edited on 01/23/2004 6:35:21 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

The United Nations is the tooth fairy of American politics: Few adults believe in it, but it's generally regarded as a harmless story to amuse the children. Since 9/11, however, the UN has ceased to be harmless, and the Democratic presidential candidates' enthusiasm for it has ceased to be amusing.

The United Nations has emerged at best as irrelevant to the terrorist threat that most concerns us, and at worst as an obstacle to our winning the war on terrorism. It must be reformed. And if it cannot be reformed, the United States should give serious consideration to withdrawal.

The UN has become an obstacle to our national security because it purports to set legal limits on the United States' ability to defend itself. If these limits ever made sense at all, they do not make sense now. Yet the UN's assertion of them forces presidents and policymakers into a horrible dilemma. If we obey the UN's rules, we compromise our national security. If we defy them, we expose ourselves to accusations of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: davidfrum; ineffectiveun; richardperle; un

1 posted on 01/23/2004 6:21:19 AM PST by Redcoat LI
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To: Redcoat LI
Red blooded realist bump.
3 posted on 01/23/2004 6:26:48 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Leave Pat, Leave!)
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To: Brad Cloven
The US should quit and kick the bums out of this country.
4 posted on 01/23/2004 6:28:14 AM PST by RiflemanSharpe (An American for a more socially and fiscally conservation America!)
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To: Redcoat LI
Bad link.
5 posted on 01/23/2004 6:30:38 AM PST by BCrago66
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To: BCrago66
Here it is:

http://www.aei.org/news/newsID.19763,filter./news_detail.asp
6 posted on 01/23/2004 6:31:30 AM PST by BCrago66
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To: Redcoat LI
U.N Should Change---or U.S Should Quit.
7 posted on 01/23/2004 6:58:21 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: Redcoat LI
Puts a smile on these NeoCon lips.
8 posted on 01/23/2004 7:00:03 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Proud member - Neoconservative Power Vortex)
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To: Redcoat LI
WOW... the LA Times actually published this????
9 posted on 01/23/2004 7:20:24 AM PST by So Cal Rocket
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