>> Can we vote on that? <<
we can lobby our representatives to vote on it.
"The U.N. is aspiring to establish itself as the central authority of a new international order of global laws and global governance. This is an international order the American people will not countenance. The American people will never accept the claims of the United Nations to be the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force in the world. The United Nations that seeks to impose its presumed authority on the American people begs for confrontation, and I want to be candid, eventual U.S. withdrawal. As matters now stand, many Americans sense that the U.N. has greater ambitions than simply being an efficient deliverer of humanitarian aid, and a more effective peacekeeper, a better weapons inspector, and a more effective tool of great power diplomacy."
--Senator Jesse Helms, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and first member of the U.S. Congress to ever address the 15 member National Security Council at the U.N., January 20, 2000
"Today, on behalf of the President, let me say that the Clinton Administration and I believe that most Americans see our role in the world and our relationship to this organization quite differently than does Senator Helms"
--Secretary of State Madeline Albright, January 24, 2000 |
