Dick Morris: To save the U.N., cut the dues

The Hill ^ | 12/1/04 | Dick Morris

[Dark Wing]

book mark

[Cobra64]

Well, when he is on Sean's radio show, call Sean and cite your issues with Morris.

[perfect stranger]

"too much pressure will cause a backlash from the majority of the UN that already hates the US."

Obviously the US is not afraid of the backlash, or Sadaam would still be in power.

[HardStarboard]

>>>too much pressure will cause a backlash from the majority of the UN that already hates the US.<<<

I think that means that they will like us....

ie: hate us now...backlash = like us now....hummmm?

Anyway...lets try it!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Imagine Montana on the Security Council!

We may have been the home of the Freemen and the Unabomber, but we're not all crazy-looney-psycho.

[Travis McGee]

Only UNamericans put the UN before America!

[blaze]

Get them the hell outta here, level the buildings, and build two gigantic twin towers!

[hershey]

Morris... 'Welcome to the party, pal.' We've complained about the UN's corruption for years. They act as if this latest outrage is just a parking ticket. When you let organizations get away with murder for years, they think they're above the law. In fact they are the law. Not yet. Not ever. Go the way of the League of Nations, UN, and don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[RBroadfoot]

"The oil-for-food scandal is, of course, the first major scandal of the global community."

NOT.

UNESCO and UNICEF have already had multi-million dollar corruption scandals. Libyan and Sudanese leadership on the Human Rights Committee is Kafkaesque scanda. The UN's effectiveness in non-proliferation is a joke. It was utterly useless during the Cold War. It was and remains counterproductive in resolving the conflict between Arabs and Israelis. Just to mention a few major scandals.

Morris' assertion is correct only if "major" means greater than $10 or 20 billion, in which case the oil-for-food is one of very few major scandals in human history.

[RBroadfoot]

"We must not let the U.N. Security Council become an auction in which the corrupt sell their votes to the guilty or the aggrieved based on who can pay them off more handsomely."

But it already IS an auction in which the corrupt sells votes. It has always been thus.

[Cobra64]

I'm with you on that. If I were W, I'd issue an Executive Order to evacuate the already rusting crumbling building within 60 days, and then have it imploded. After that, I'd leave the rest of the remains to be removed by NYC, and the cite rebuil to be determined by same since it is on NYC real estate. Footnote however: I *believe* that the real estate footprint of the UN is owned by the Rockefeller Foundation; so there may be legal implications there. I'm not sure. Just seem to remember this relationship between the City of NY, the UN and the Federal gov't.

[thoughtomator]

Not sure those figures are right... I read recently that the shares of the US, Japan, and Germany combined make up 2/3rds of the entire UN budget.

[bill1952]

The place where we cast the Veto when the rest of the world is determined to do try to do something under the auspices of international law, against the US and it's interests.

I can't stand the UN, but it there and we need to find ways to really cut it down to size.

A start would be to Veto virtually everything that does not benefit our interests, no matter who the author.
Start using some clout here.

Another would be to permanently reduce our dues.

[bill1952]

I agree.

But the way that the UN is constructed, they ARE above the law, unless the nation to which they belong is going to prosecute them.
Fat chance that some dirt bag 3rd world country is going to do that.

That's another thing that should be changed.
The limiting of absolute immunity.
Personally, I think they should be forced to be held legally accountable to those that pay the bills. - The US, Japan. and others.

The UN is corrupt to the bone.

[Prime Choice]

In other words, being too forceful in doing the right thing will have the opposite effect.

Fine. Let's see how "relevant" the U.N. is without the U.S. in it. It'll be nothing more than an international version of the Democrat Party. Nothing to them apart from their hatred of real freedom.

[Prime Choice]

I *believe* that the real estate footprint of the UN is owned by the Rockefeller Foundation; so there may be legal implications there.

No problem. Just call it eminent domain. Liberals do it all the time. It'd be kinda poetic justice to see that tactic used to demolish their beloved terrorist-coddling U.N.

[GailA]

MASTER LIST UN OIL/SEX FOR FOOD SCANDALS

[Buck W.]

"We may have been the home of the Freemen and the Unabomber, but we're not all crazy-looney-psycho."

I know--my statement was a positive one!

[Carolinamom]

Ref #4.......it was Mort Kondracke that said that.

On another note, Dick Morris once worked as a political advisor in a campaign for Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC).