[JBGUSA]

According to the New York Sun article excerpted above, the UN building needs badly to be refurbished and reconstructed. In my opinion, Senator Charles Schumer, Democratic Senator from New York (and heretofore a staunch supporter of Israel) is asking the wrong question. The questions should be:

1. How do we ensure the building's and UN's rapid demise;
2. How do we ensure that the Ambassadors from the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, UK and other worthwhile countries are not inside, but the pond scum that jet sets on their countries' meager resources while their people die of horrid diseases are inside; and
3. How should the US, Japan, Canada and other countries spend the moneys freed up from supporting dictators, murderers and thieves.

The question should not be how the rebuilding of the UN is funded; it should be whether to fund an orderly implosion of the structure, or let it tumble down, while in full use and full of some of the world's most wicked and depraved people.

If you read the article, you'll see that even the rebuilding effort will be the target of greedy politicians sent to the UN on cushy budgets, to spend time in New York rather than such garden spots as Kinshasa, Zaire.

[hsalaw]

firefighters and Turtle Bay residents who might be exposed to asbestos in the event of an emergency at the U.N.,Senator Schumer said.

We can avoid that problem by making sure the demolition team wears hazmat gear when they take the building down. The implosion might cause airborne particles, but this is a problem 99.999% of Americans would get behind and solve.

[FlingWingFlyer]

$1.9 Billion!?!? For some chicken wire and some two by fours? Gimme a break. Move the chicken coop to Geneva or Fallujah. The U.N. has outlived whatever it was created to do.

[WireAndWood]

All that is needed is for the U.N. to draft a strongly-worded resolution imploring the building to cease disintegration immediately.

That will take care of it all. How nice we can feel then.

[Political Junkie Too]

It sounds like the building should be condemned by the city and demolished. I'd support moving the UN Headquarters to Kabul. It would be a great jobs program for the region, and most UN members would be a lot closer to home.

-PJ

[DakotaRed]

For once, Chuckie may just be right. Now would be a great time to ship all of the Usless Nations to France. Let them build them a new building and care for it as well.

[sergeantdave]

"Schumer Says U.N. Building Is a Danger'

I rarely agree with the fascist gungrabber, but he's right that the UN is dangerous.

And unlike Bolton's idea of chopping off the top 10 floors of the UN Marxist compound, I'd go for the first 10 floors and see what happens to the rest of the building.

Tank you.