Comments | reality_hammer: This is one of the problems with the United Nations

reality_hammer

This is one of the problems with the United Nations

Oct 16, 2007 15:16

All nations are presumed to be equal in all things.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Libya, Vietnam and Burkina Faso were elected to nonpermanent seats on the United Nations Security Council for the years 2008-09 on Tuesday.
So you have nations with questionable human rights records (Libya and Vietnam for those of you voting Democrat) getting seats on the ( Read more... )

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astroprisoner October 16 2007, 20:39:06 UTC

SECGEN of the UN I could live with. He'd be there a couple of years, then he'd be out.

It's the rumor that she'd like to make him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that gives me the willies.

astroprisoner October 16 2007, 20:53:13 UTC

You can't avoid the basic problem with the UN: we act as though it is something that it isn't, and we continue to get frustrated when it doesn't do the things we would like.

We think it is an international deliberative body designed to solve world problems.

It really is a proxy set up by the Allied winners of WW2 in an effort to ensure that Germany doesn't start WW3 sometime in the 1960s. (After all, in 1945, this was a very reasonable expectation given German behavior over previous decades.)

One of the key assumptions in creating the UN was that the Allied powers would continue to work together as allies. Sadly, FDR never envisioned the Cold War. He probably never even heard of Mao Tse-Tung, let alone thought that his rag-tag guerrillaband would actually boot out the Nationalists.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: The world does need an international deliberative body to solve disputes, negotiate certain treaties, and solve some problems. But the UN as designed...isn't it.

silverlightstar October 16 2007, 22:48:34 UTC

It doesn't surprise me whatsoever.

I'm wondering what it'll take for the US to 1) get out of the UN and 2) push the UN out of US territory.

psychomatt October 17 2007, 01:12:29 UTC

It'd take Satan buying a Parka, for starters. :-/

silverlightstar October 17 2007, 13:27:26 UTC

Would that parka be down-filled?

psychomatt October 17 2007, 14:18:24 UTC

Definitely.

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psychomatt October 17 2007, 01:13:58 UTC

What next? Will the UN demand that criminals be allowed to serve on their own juries during a trial?

Don't give them (or liberals, for that matter) any ideas.

Burkina Faso? Never Heard of the Place. geah October 17 2007, 04:41:42 UTC

Oh, wait. It used to be Upper Volta. Now I see...some nuts took over and changed it.