Japan Rethinking Plan for Security Council(might withhold U.N. dues as a retaliation)

AP ^ | 09/30/05 | NICK WADHAMS

[TigerLikesRooster]

U.N. will feel mighty pain if both U.S. and Japan withold U.N. dues. After their landslide victory, the ruling party could stop being circumspect.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Cicero]

There's a good cover article in the latest issue of Crisis magazine on the implosion at the UN. The writer comments that the chief supporters of the UN are the Europeans, who find it a useful way of increasing their political influence.

It's ironic that the two nations who pay nearly half the UN's bills have little or nothing to gain from this organization. The main beneficiaries are France, Germany, Belgium, Old Europe, and an assortment of third-world tyrannies.

[No Longer Free State]

Japan joining us in whithholding dues, further putting stress on the UN to reform, is somehow supposed to be a DIS-incentive for us to act?

Hell, dudes, go for it.

[gaijin]

THIS IS FANTASTIC..! ;)

YAAAAAAY...!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #3

Yes, it is a now Euro's instrument to tie down their rivals via the facade of multilateralism. What Euro cannot get by their military and economic power, they want to achieve via thousand strings of U.N. bureaucracy. It works like a progressive income tax system.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Japan and India should be on the SC.

France should be tossed off.

[NordP]

Yes...I can see it now....THE COUNTRIES OF LIBERTY !!!!

and...The U.N. gone.

[Marine_Uncle]

I believe the word "warn" should be enterpreted by the world body as "tip off". Perhaps as the scum bags, no Big John is excluded from the list, agonize over how much they could loss, perhaps they shall become a bit more how should we say, malable. About time the jerks get threatened.

[thoughtomator]

"Warned"??? Acted sympathetically is more like it. Now we control 63% of the money rather than just 40%.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"Japan Rethinking Plan for Security Council(might withhold U.N. dues"

This could be a good thing, a bankrupt enemy is a weak enemy, and I for one consider the UN an enemy.

[NickatNite2003]

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO! Way to go, Japan! :-)

[NickatNite2003]

Someone needs to make the point to these UN
buttmunchs, that they are *NOT* a government!!!

Never were...Never *will* be.

[Malesherbes]

Good news indeed. The USA and Japan together pay for 41.5 percent of the boondoggle.

[Maeve]

Sounds brilliant to me.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

'Japan-is-our-friend' ping.

[BigTom85]

Yes this is a good start. Now all we have to do is withdraw from the UN and kick their asses out of the US! Im sure a Canada will welcome them with open arms!?

[AmericanChef]

-people at home no longer believe the country is getting its money's worth.-

IMO, you can NEVER get your money's worth from the UN.

[Thumper1960]

Sounds like a good way to finally kill the UN.

Here's hoping!

[Thumper1960]

"Warned"??? Acted sympathetically is more like it. Now we control 63% of the money rather than just 40%.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.