Time to Create a Legitimate World Organization

FamilySecurityMatters.org ^ | July 28, 2006 | Frank Salvato

[mmccarroll]

Time after time the United Nations has been given the opportunity to “do what was right” in the eyes of the innocent and tortured, the threatened and the oppressed existing throughout the world. And time after time they have chosen a politically influenced globalist ideology over action and inaction over saving lives.

It is well past time that the United States takes the initiative in closing the history book on this ineffective and dangerous organization of ideologues, do-nothings, bureaucrats and criminals.

[mmccarroll]

I'm not sure that it's time to close the book on the UN - I'm not even sure we could do it, they seem to have too strong a hold on the world's collective brain to allow anyone to extricate themselves. But it's always fun to point out the UN's shortcomings. Sort of like shooting fish in a barrel is fun.

[RoadTest]

"I'm not sure that it's time to close the book on the UN"

Then when?

[aberaussie]

Frankly, I think the problems with the UN are inherent in that sort of organization. A new organization would most likely be just more of the same. People are people, power corrupts and all that.

[listenhillary]

Personal freedom for citizens must be fairly high for membership. Dictators and authoritarian regimes need not apply for membership.

[cripplecreek]

We should be making our deals on our own without socialist, marxist, and islamofascist nations deciding when and who we should be dealing with.

[Reaganesque]

I'm with the author of the article. I really can't think of a single useful thing they do. It is a cesspool of political corruption that is more a hinderance to world peace than a help. Get rid of it.

[BenLurkin]

The U N can and should be closed.

As foer what should take its place -- nothing would probably be the best.

[American in Singapore]

Frankly, I think the problems with the UN are inherent in that sort of organization.

Perhaps you are correct, but at least we shouldn't have to house and fund these Star Wars bar dregs. Some place in Old Europe - like Brussels or The Hague - seems much more fitting.

[kjo]

First, remove the US from the UN and the UN from the US. As an international peace keeper, the UN is worthless.

Second, replace the UN by a group of like minded democracies. Perhaps the NATO nations are a place to start.

Third, announce to the terrorist supporting nations that if they continue allowing groups to attack the democracy loving nations of the world this new organization will come after them. Saddam was just the beginning.

It's going to be a fifty year campaign. We might as well hunker down and begin.

[MichiganConservative]

Why don't we just try it and see what they do? What will they do? invade?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Here's the legitimate "world organization" that we need...

This one below probably would not be so good...

[AnnAdoringFan]

we should pull the plug on the money... kick them out of our country... and form an association of free market republics.

[Vaquero]

Dump the UN first....nature, abhorrent of a vacuum will fill in the blanks.

[mmccarroll]

I just think there's something to be said for an all-encompassing organization, if (and it's a big IF) it is reformed. Oppressive, obnoxious, unpleasant, repressive, belligerent states like, well, most of those out there, should be in the UN but shouldn't have all the privileges. Give them one more incentive to reform.

Now, I realize this is a pipe dream. Can you imagine Kofi Annan, guns (or latte's) blazing, laying down the law for Syria or Iran? No way. A girl can dream, though, right?

[RoadTest]

"Now, I realize this is a pipe dream."

Same pipe dream we had at the end of WWII.

[Leatherneck_MT]

"We should be making our deals on our own without socialist, marxist, and islamofascist nations deciding when and who we should be dealing with."

Amen

[Non-Sequitur]

I can understand dumping the UN but why would we want to replace it?

[econjack]

I agree that it's time to close the book on the UN. Look back and see what it's accomplished over the years. It always seems like their solution is to divide the territory in half and establish a permanent buffer zone (e.g., N. and S. Korea, N. and S. Vietnam, Cyprus, Bosnia, etc.) which simply is an attempt to sweep the real issues under the rug. Place on top of that the scandals (e.g., oil for food program) and the out-right leftist agenda that we finance (e.g., UNICEF each Halloween), I don't understand why we've put up with the crap as long as we have.

Personally, I don't think we need to pull the plug on the UN, but let's at least pull out our "dues" at being a member and see how well they fare. Let someone else pay the lion's share of undermining our democracy in the eyes of the world.

[hedgetrimmer]

Time to Create a Legitimate World Organization

Ah utopia! NOT.

[wideawake]

There is no need for a UN or any other world organization.

In the future, as in the past and just like today, important global initiatives will be undertaken by great powers in order to achieve their policy goals.

The UN is a joke, as is any other organization which pretends that geopolitical decisionmaking authority can come from any other source than military or financial power.