Posted on 10/07/2004 4:43:10 PM PDT by MarlboroRed
The u.n. is as useless as teats on a boar hog.
Without even reading the post, I agree with the title!
It is time to take action... call for immediate withdraw of the US from the UN.... Its sanctions are a joke and have gotten Americans killed... French rockets killing our boys in combat... this is outrageous... A global test... Kerry will sell out the US ... FREEDOM trumps the Global Test...
Excellent article, I wonder what other nations, besides the bribed ones, think of this. Is there any recognition that the UN is a rotting cesspool of corruption?
The entire rat's nest needs to be cleaned out, that especially means Kofi.
Plus the nations that took part in this need to be put on a probation of sorts and all veto power they have needs to be revoked.
That would only scratch the surface, it would be easier to just scrap it and not start over. It seems that a multi-national beauracracy is a breeding ground of corruption and anti-American interests.
Mega AMEN!
I totally agree with Mark Steyn. The UN is as useful now as the League of Nations was after WWI.
They are hive of bribery, liers and above all America-haters.
There would be groundswell citizen approval if a gutsy U.S. Congress did not pay our U.S. dues next year and as a result, the UN was homeless.
great article
And it won't happen. The reason it won't happen is the reason the UN is doomed - it has become the playground for every two-bit bureaucrat and tinpot despot in the world, a means for them to validate one another and act out a legitimacy they have not earned. Duty there for this ruling class is no more than an extension of their progress in theft within their own countries. No more perfect example of this is the sitting Human Rights Commission, chaired by Libya and populated by such avatars of human dignity as Cuba, Zimbabwe, and Sudan.
The problem here is obvious: it is that in an effort to promote egalitarianism the foreign minister of Zimbabwe is accorded the same respect that is given the foreign minister of Australia, despite the (ahem) difference in moral character between the two men and their respective governments. There is no judgment in that august body between good men and evil, oppressors and liberators. That is not to say there is no moral approval or disapproval for actions dealt with therein, but the only criterion used is whether, or on which side, the United States is involved. The other side is the moral one.
I shall not give up on the idea of the UN, because I think that something like it is needed, but in its current form and under its current miasma of corruption I cannot find a single reason to defend it.
For decades it has been clear that in order to help establish liberty and justice in the nations of the world, the UN MUST be destroyed first. The question is how to do it. The U.S. Congress does not have the will to stop funding the damn corrupt bastards at taxpayers' expense; I have no doubt that a lot of that stolen money winds up in the campaign coffers of members of the US Senate and probably quite a bit of it in the senators' personal accounts. Those who may not have been multimillionaires when they were elected to the Senate, sure as heck are when they leave! $100 billion buys a lot of corruption. Couple that with the payoffs coming from the drug cartels, and pretty soon it adds up to a lot of money.
I don't give a RA if they go or where they go but I am sick and tired of watching our tax money go to the UN Mafia.
I wonder if the US pulled out of the UN if there w/b other countries to jump ship also? Any ideas as to which countries?
Probably most of new Europe...
I think our best bet would be to jettison France from NATO and start over there.
The UN Sec. Generals always come from 3rd world nations that have no general clue about building a growing economy, giving people free elections, etc.
Add This one too!
YES, frankly France should not be permitted to join anything until they improve their attitude. And maybe not even then!
bump
"Without even reading the post, I agree with the title!"
I'll second that...
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