Sunday, June 25th 2006
League of Nations 2.0
Sixty-one years ago today, June 26, the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco. Ah, what a different world we live in today because that glorious international body has done its task of preventing serious international conflicts.
The UN is taking major action in Sudan, it’s standing strong in Iraq trying to assist the impoverished locals there, it’s trying to benefit both sides in the Iranian nuclear issue, it’s never questioned the right to exist for Israel - which shelters a people persecuted for thousands of years, and it is totally free of corruption and third world hegemony. And it pays its parking tickets.
I believe it was Ronald Reagan who asked the question, referring to the presidency of Jimmy Carter, “are you better off than you were four years ago?” Well citizens-of-the-world, are we all better off than we were 61 years ago? You’ve heard my opinion. I look forward to reading your responses.
Um. Chances are no matter where you live or what income you and your family receives, you are better off than your predecessors were 61 years ago. And I don’t think this necessarily has anything to do with the UN’s existence.
Comment by Yaman — 6/25/2006 @ 10:25 pm
I agree with you certainly in terms of economics (standard of life et cetera). But I don’t think security-wise the world is that much better off because of the UN.
Comment by Tommy Owens — 6/26/2006 @ 8:15 am
I disagree. I think international organizations, including the UN, have been instrumental in improving the personal security of people all over the world. This is a topic that deserves a lot more attention and research than I am willing or capable of giving it at this point, but the UN’s role in international security is much more than just the security council. If you are unsatisfied with their current functions (and there are many reasons to be), the solution is not to nix the UN but to repair it. Isolationism is not the way of the future.
Comment by Yaman — 6/26/2006 @ 2:47 pm
Only thing the UN does for me is take my tax dollars. Otherwise, it doesn’t benefit me at all. It’s useless. If the liberals were really concerned about the 3d world economy, they would give up their vacation homes, their TVs, their play money, their expensive knickknacks and bank accounts and make the world more even economically. But they are hypocrites like Thomas Jefferson who proposed in the Declaration of Independence to abolish slavery ( Later excluded by the #2 CC), personally addressed the issue and were called by his own slaves a hypocrite. Rightly so. When liberals look to their founding Democratic Party ancestor, Jefferson, they say “Hey I can be a hypocrite extraordinaire like the clown too which prove we democratic lefties can be from now on until we destroy everything by our stupidness.” People that fawn over the UN as some type of noble cause but refuse to pay out of their own pockets and demand the tax payer foot the bill become just as hypocritical as the clown. Until you personally put your money away from you to the needy who have nothing then and only then can you claim allegiance to the UN’s cause. Otherwise you are just another hypocrite, as your founding clown. Jefferson never freed his slaves, because he was a lefty-democrat hypocrite.
Think about it and do it slowly.
Comment by Anonymous — 6/26/2006 @ 3:25 pm
But what specifically has the UN done to improve the world’s security? I’m not disagreeing with you that good things have happened, it’s just I don’t have that much evidence to prove that. And I’m no isolationist nor are many UN-opponents, I’m more in the Cheney/Wolfowitz camp if you know what I mean.
Comment by Tommy Owens — 6/26/2006 @ 9:58 pm