[The Great Satan]

I haven't really given this idea any thought though -- how would you get there from here?

I don't think it would be that difficult. Bush is a businessman. He thinks like a businessman. That's his genius -- his characteristically American genius. If one of your investments isn't making a profit, you cut your losses and get out. When the Enronites came to him begging for a bail-out, he just told them to get lost. There's nothing so important that the UN does, even in purely PR terms, that could not be nixed or grandfathered into a new and better organization. I think that, unlike the Enronites, the UNites probably don't understand how precarious their position is -- they are totally divorced from the world of accountability, not merely on vacation from it. And, boy, would I like to see the looks on their faces when the axe goes down.

The only problem I see with this idea is, how come I didn't think of it before? Oh, well. Even the Great Satan can't think of everything.

[Mitchell]

If one of your investments isn't making a profit, you cut your losses and get out.

Especially when you see an excellent investment elsewhere.

You're right about the precariousness of the U.N.'s position. The U.N. has no moral authority, no political authority, no military authority. It's a facade.

In fact, it's a faded, fraying facade that could fall over with the next gust of wind that comes along -- or with just the slightest push by somebody who doesn't want to wait for that gust of wind.

[Grampa Dave]

His first message to the UN was his refusal to knell and take the phony global warming Kyoto treaty as gospel.

Since then there has been a list of slaps in the face of the anti Americans in charge of the UN.

I believe that he set this entire fiasco for the UN and France/Germany up last year. Then, he set the trap in his speech at the UN in September. He told them to act and do something or become irrelevant.

They behaved just like he expected and last week was they started to slide into irrelevance.

[Mitchell]

The main technical problem with the creation of this new organization is to avoid having its potential supporters view it as a mere shill for the U.S. Perhaps the proposal needs to come from elsewhere. Some country like the Czech Republic would seem to me to be a possibility. Or maybe it needs to be a group of countries to give the proposal the necessary weight.