Reforming the United Nations

[darkbeaver]

RE: Reforming the United

Isreal accounts for 1/3 of the international aid provided by the U.S. to only .oo1% of the worlds population of 5.8 million, and thats the sixteenth wealthyest nation in the world, while a much smaller ammount goes to more than 350 million people living in sub-saharian Africa.

 

[Jay]

Re: RE: Reforming the United Nations

People are dying because Sudan won't purchase the drug and give it to everyone. Maybe we could pin it on Iran...thay have lots of oil money.

Sudans only pharmaseutacle plant was destroyed by American bombing ordered by Clinton, they still have not paid the owner.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/08/21/wemb21.html

THE United States launched cruise missile strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan yesterday against centres allegedly linked with the terrorist bombings of two American embassies.

Gen Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said further military operations were being considered. The threat posed by terrorists meant no details would be given in case they endangered US troops.

"Our target was terror. Our mission was clear," President Clinton said last night in a television address to the nation after America hit training bases in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan with sea-launched missiles. The offensive had been mounted to "counter an immediate threat". He said military intelligence indicated that a "gathering of key terrorist leaders" was planned yesterday at the site in Afghanistan.

Did someone pay the Americans for their embassies?

 

[Jay]

And that's not even serious stuff. It is like giving a room in our home to an enemy.

Exactly.

 

[I think not]

Re: RE: Reforming the United

Isreal accounts for 1/3 of the international aid provided by the U.S. to only .oo1% of the worlds population of 5.8 million, and thats the sixteenth wealthyest nation in the world, while a much smaller ammount goes to more than 350 million people living in sub-saharian Africa.

You forgot Egypt get's about just as much as Israel does. A bill that the American taxpayer pays for signing a peace treaty.

 

[EagleSmack]

I was heard reports from the last government that one or two reserve units could be apart of a U.N standing army.

America pays about 25% and it is decreasing each year while Germany, Japan and others have fees.

And don't forget if America leaves, it has all the fees that they need to pay just like Quebec has to if they leave Canada.

The US will never leave the UN IMO. But if they did they would not pay the UN one cent in exit fees.

Then they should tow and impound every illegally parked UN car just for fun.

 

[Jay]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1756130,00.html

In a speech on Friday, Mr Ahmadinejad described Israel as a "rotten tree" which would be destroyed by a coming "storm". He last year called for the country to be "wiped off the map".

Where is the UN on this?

 

[darkbeaver]

RE: Reforming the United

Israel is a rotten branch of the rotten American tree, rotten trees fall that's just nature at work, you can't stop nature. Still when the correction comes both these countries will be welcome, and they can exercise thier one vote like everyone else.

 

[EagleSmack]

And they can pay the same as everyone else.

 

[Valentine_Smith]

Perhaps at some time we lived on a planet that placed value in concepts like justice, loyalty, the “rule of law”, personal responsibility, and so on, but those days are long gone….if they ever in fact existed.

The great engines of commerce and the practitioners of “progress” have laid a new foundation and built a new framework that renders a notion like the United Nations, if not obsolete, something like a naïve curiosity….

Britain and the United States legitimized the creation of the state of Israel and the number of UN resolutions that Israel has ignored exceeds those it’s adopted. Whether forced by geopolitics or economics, the United Nations was complicit in creating the festering sore that the Israeli-Palestinian situation is and has been for half a century.

Without both the will and the means to hold member nations accountable, the United Nations has no teeth, and what we end up with is a group of nations prepared to ignore and defy the UN when that great instrument of new world power…i.e. “wealth” is at stake.

The United States has ignored, under-cut and sabotaged the United Nations and behaved, in accord with its self-declared Manifest Destiny and in so doing escaped the responsibility it ought to accept for its foreign policies for decades.

Videos of Donald Rumsfeld hobnobbing with Saddam Hussein and supplying Iraq with chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq conflict are all but forgotten.

The Illegality of the war in Viet Nam (predicated on the lies of the Gulf of Tonkin) “incident” are similarly ignored.

The policy of the United States in arming the mujahideen and complicity in moving Islamic radicals out of Pakistan into both Afghanistan (the Tliban) and other nations in the Middle East is a matter of public record.

The fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction as claimed by UN resolution and the dog and pony show subsequently orchestrated by Colin Powel at the UN demonstrates the “value” of truth and justice both the United States and the United Nations is prepared to accept.

Commerce is the new standard and the new rule of law as far as the Merchants of Death are concerned and there is no place in the rules of economics for anything even remotely similar to the United Nations.

A wonderful idea, poorly executed and permitted to devolve into another Enron or Liberal Party Sponsorship Program or any other image of corruption we’re all learning to live with in the New World of “Greed is Good”!