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Does the world need the UN?
Belgium Post ^ | 12-17-2004 | Arseny Oganesyan

Posted on 12/17/2004 12:45:38 PM PST by processing please hold

The trouble is that the world is divided over the future of the UN, which is nothing more than a burden for the neo-conservative team of US President George Bush. It must be sustained, but it is virtually useless when urgent and resolute actions are needed, as in the case of Yugoslavia and Iraq. Why should the world's sole superpower confine itself to acting within the international legal framework stipulated by the UN Charter, if it can attain its goals with the help of regional blocs (NATO) or by creating ad hoc international coalitions?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: neoconservative; russia; un
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1 posted on 12/17/2004 12:45:39 PM PST by processing please hold
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To: pbrown

The idea of the organization was laudable, but implementation is a disaster. It's a West-hating marxist paper tiger. We should kick the present version out of the States, and use the buildings for office space.


3 posted on 12/17/2004 12:48:43 PM PST by theDentist (Jerry Springer: PBS for White Trash)
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To: pbrown

NO


4 posted on 12/17/2004 12:50:36 PM PST by The SISU kid (I'm the swizzle stick in the cocktail of life)
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To: pbrown
Why should the world's sole superpower confine itself to acting within the international legal framework stipulated by the UN Charter?

It probably would not be so bad if the UN confined itself to acting within the international framework stipulated by the UN Charter.

Sudan? Oil for food? Rwanda? Sex scandals? Kids on the take? Taking away NYC park land? All taht takes a back seat to sniffling on how cheep the USA is and how superior they are.

5 posted on 12/17/2004 12:52:09 PM PST by pikachu (The REAL script)
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To: pbrown

The world has been made darker by the UN...nice idea, too many dictators and crooks...


6 posted on 12/17/2004 12:52:37 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: All

Apparently Russia thinks the UN is the counter-balance to the U.S.


7 posted on 12/17/2004 12:54:28 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown
Per title

No

Nein

Nyet

Nada

8 posted on 12/17/2004 12:55:03 PM PST by kahoutek
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To: Pookyhead

I have been against the U.N. since the fiasco at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. They are a thorn which needs to be removed from our side.


9 posted on 12/17/2004 12:56:23 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pikachu

"It probably would not be so bad if the UN confined itself to acting within the international framework stipulated by the UN Charter"

I remember when the UN was started. It was wrong then and worse now.

It was started by communists in the US, it's charter was written by communists, for communists for the sole purpose of destroying the west.

Whatever you young people were taught in school is nothing but lies!

The UN should be totally destroyed and never to raise it's ugly head again!


10 posted on 12/17/2004 12:57:14 PM PST by dalereed
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To: theDentist

The one single goal that the UN has, from what I can tell is how to bring down the U.S.


11 posted on 12/17/2004 12:57:52 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown
Slam dunk!

Answer: It doesn't!

12 posted on 12/17/2004 1:00:20 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.)
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To: pbrown
No -- WE do not need the U.N. The U.N. NEEDS US (U.S)

Kick them out, use the money we were going to spend on the U.N. and convert the building into a homeless shelter and a day care center proper.

That's all it ever was anyway.
13 posted on 12/17/2004 1:00:51 PM PST by four more in O 4 (God Bless America, and Merry CHRIST-mas to ALL!)
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To: pikachu

They have out lived their usefulness. It is time for them to pack up and go elsewhere.


14 posted on 12/17/2004 1:03:08 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

I agree. The world has turned into a more dangerous place. The UN should soon find itself in the dust-bin of history.


15 posted on 12/17/2004 1:04:55 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Publius6961

Agreed. Their time has passed.


16 posted on 12/17/2004 1:06:17 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: four more in O 4

If we cut the purse strings....the UN will collapse. I say it is time we do just that.


17 posted on 12/17/2004 1:07:43 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: dalereed
You are right on every point you raised.

The UN has become a back-biting eating machine that lives on American tax dollars. It is time to foreclose on that organization.

18 posted on 12/17/2004 1:11:04 PM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: pbrown

The U.S. certainly doesn't. They've only made everything they've touched worse.


19 posted on 12/17/2004 1:11:11 PM PST by susiek
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To: dalereed
The one and only achievement of the United nations was eradicating Small Pox... Unfortunately their position on DDT has killed 10 times more than small pox ever could. Hey, Ho, UN's gotta go. Hey, Ho, UN's gotta go.
20 posted on 12/17/2004 1:13:00 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Free the Fallujah one)
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