U.S. Report Criticizes U.N. and Proposes Overhaul

NYTimes ^ | 6/13/05 | WARREN HOGE

[anniegetyourgun]

UNITED NATIONS, June 12 - A Congressionally mandated panel will report this week that the United Nations suffers from poor management, "dismal" staff morale and lack of accountability and professional ethics but will acknowledge the broad changes proposed for the organization by Secretary General Kofi Annan and urge the United States to support them.

[anniegetyourgun]

Two words: CONFIRM BOLTON

[Guillermo]

Why does the US hate the world?

Why does it want to starve all the worlds children, and drill for oil?

[Mariposaman]

Obvious, pathetic attempt for attention.

[Kidan]

ok, so we discovered that the UN is unorganized, suffers poor managment, no leadership, and in general sucks.

So the solution is to let the same people keep running it?


when are we going to throw that silly thing off our land....

[inquest]

A Congressionally mandated panel will report this week that the United Nations suffers from poor management, "dismal" staff morale

And Congress considers this a problem for us? Would it also consider it a problem if the Communist Chinese government or the Mafia suffered from the same ills?

[Winston Smith]

If I would default on my house payment, the bank would take it and sell it or keep it and rent it out. If the world bank has countries that default on the payments why are they forgiven. They should be forclosed on, natural resources sold to the market and the governments disbanded.

Well thats my .02

[Valin]

There's an old saying, "If you owe the bank $100.00 and can't pay, you've got a problem. If you owe the bank $1,000,000 and can't pay the bank has a problem."

My point is these "loans" will never be repaid and (IMO) that was understood when they were made. This could persent us with an opportunity to pressure these government to get their act together.

[anniegetyourgun]

I see your .02 and raise it .50!