Posted on 04/17/2008 6:09:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
McCain has never proposed dropping the UN.
He wants his "League of Democracies" in addition to the UN... to build his "New Global Order."
McCain is right; Gorby is wrong, but of course he would be. He still can’t get over the fact that he was out-maneuvered by Reagan and Bush ‘41, whom he probably believed to be his intellectual inferiors.
The UN has been utterly dysfunctional since its inception. Early on, to be fair, it was basically a puppet of the ww2 allies, but once China got a seat on the Security Council, it became another proxy cold war battlefield. Then the so-called non-aligned nations (which were once led by none other than Saddam) and you know the rest.
Gorby acts like the UN is some sacred thing. If it wasn’t supposed to stand for freedom, then what was the point? Security? That was always a joke. The only thing they did reasonably well was UNESCO, till that got completely anti-democratic.
I agree. I also think it was a travesty that Truman let Eleanor Roosevelt represent America in drafting the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights and not base it on our own Bill of Rights.
Two days in a row I’m agreeing with McCain. It’s a record. A trend would be welcome.
” Well, I’ll say one thing for McCain...he certainly is different.
He can’t be pigeon-holed. I guess that’s what “maverick” means. “
This isn’t any of that Brokeback Mountain stuff, is it? I don’t stay up on the latest jargon for these things.
Remarks By John McCain To The Los Angeles World Affairs Council
“I am an idealist...a realistic idealist”
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/872473dd-9ccb-4ab4-9d0d-ec54f0e7a497.htm
RUN from this like a beat dog. With this incompetent gov., we'll end up with both. Blackbird.
Remarks By John McCain To The Los Angeles World Affairs Council
“The risks of global warming have no borders. We and the other nations of the world must get serious about substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years or we will hand off a much-diminished world to our grandchildren. We need a successor to the Kyoto Treaty, a cap-and-trade system that delivers the necessary environmental impact in an economically responsible manner. We Americans must lead by example and encourage the participation of the rest of the world...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991947/posts
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