[wretchard]

It's a very interesting list of vetoes. The vast majority concern two subjects: UN resolutions condemning Israel and South Africa. Doubtless the people in Southern Africa are benefitting immensely under the regimes endorsed by the UN Security Council and I am gratified to see that you are proud of that.

It would surely be best for all concerned if the US gave way on the first point too. After the Jews were driven into the sea, there will be peace and security in the region. Perhaps you would care to move to that paradise in the immediate aftermath, after the removal of a US veto makes it's attainment possible. Of course, the Jews might fire off 300 nukes before they die, a factor that America might have considered in their deliberations, but that is a detail.

My favorite is the US veto of the 1980 Endorsement of the Program of Action for Second Half of United Nations Decade for Women. If ever a subject required serious deliberation in the Security Council, this was it.

I thank you for publishing the list of Security Council Resolutions that the United States has vetoed, but probably not for the reasons you intended. It has made me absolutely certain that the world would be a madhouse without America and everlastingly grateful for calling my attention to that fact.

[libertylover]

Thank you for publishing the list of Security Council Resolutions that the United States has vetoed, but probably not for the reasons you intended. It has made me absolutely certain that the world would be a madhouse without America and everlastingly grateful for calling my attention to that fact.

Hear, hear!

[KeyWest]

Great post.

The list of vetoes also underscores my position that we should not get out of the UN, since, if we leave, it only adds to the mischief making of the many undemocratic forces still in the world. One veto stops it all.