Kick Burma Out of the U.N.

The United Nations this week said the refusal of Burma's government to allow workers into the country's devastated agricultural region was unprecedented in the history of humanitarian relief. The human catastrophe produced by Burma's refusal to permit aid in the wake of Cyclone Nargis has stunned the senses of a world that has watched this spectacle for a week.

There are uncounted numbers of persons dead, homeless and orphaned. Bodies still float in water. The World Health Organization has warned there could be outbreaks of cholera and especially malaria. U.N. member-state India warned the junta the deadly cyclone was headed toward Burma on May 1, two days before it hit. Yesterday, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said food relief hasn't yet reached the region because "regrettably" the junta won't talk to him.

It's time to kick Burma out of the United Nations. If the U.N. does not put in motion a process to suspend Burma from its U.N. membership, then, clearly, nothing is forbidden.

Chapter II of the U.N. charter provides for the suspension or expulsion of member states by the Security Council, which can also restore membership. We leave it to the lawyers to find words suitable for such a motion. Maybe there's something somewhere in the U.N.'s Declaration of Human Rights, which celebrates its 60th tattered anniversary this year.

Globalist McCain is'n planning on abandoning the NWO, just tweaking and advancing. Some mirror Obama's platform. My comments in parentheses.

An Enduring Peace Built on Freedom
Securing America's Future
John McCain

From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2007

* We also need a nonmilitary deployable police force to train foreign forces and help maintain law and order in places threatened by state collapse.

UNITING THE WORLD'S DEMOCRACIES

This would be unlike Woodrow Wilson's doomed plan for the universal-membership League of Nations. (But read on....)

The organization could act when the UN fails

This League of Democracies would not supplant the UN

* summit of the world's democracies
* The next U.S. president must convene a summit of the world's leading powers

We must enhance U.S. relations with...Brazil, a partner whose leadership in the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti is a model for fostering regional security.

The genocide in Darfur demands U.S. leadership. My administration will consider the use of all elements of American power to stop the outrageous acts of human destruction that have unfolded there.

* the IAEA’s annual budget of $130 million must be substantially increased

I have proposed a bipartisan plan in the U.S. Senate to address the problem of climate change and ensure a sustainable future for humankind.

I will aggressively promote global trade liberalization at the World Trade Organization

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20071101faessay86602-p0/john-mccain/an-enduring-peace-built-on-freedom.html

Thirty years ago when I graduated College, I.B. M. recruited me for a plant in Burlington,Vt.
I checked in to the offer and found a few things about the place.
At the time Burlington had the only admittedly socialists city counsel in the U,S,.
Then he noted I lived in Florida and Southern Calif all my life and did I mind cold weather. I asked him what he meant “cold”/ He told me the temp didn’t get above zero for 40 days the previous year.
I told him if I.B.M. only had a position for me there then I just wasn’t interested.
And it has gotten worse since then as the whole state has gone socialist and it still is cold as hell.
I went with Texas Instruments in N.W. Houston.

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