GOOD ARTICLE!
The UN is a joke. It is, as our president said, a debating society. A toothless (thank God) joke of an organization whose sole purpose is to give diplomats from pissant countries a forum to inveigh against the evils (and by "evils," I mean "prosperity" and "freedom") of the capitalist, hegemonic West. You want more evidence? I give you....
A) The United States -- not perfect, but nonetheless the one nation
that's done more for civil liberty than any other in the history of man --
was booted off the human rights commission...to make way for the
Sudan, a country that still operates a fucking slave trade.
B) That same human rights commission is now chaired by Libya.
C) Iraq...Iraq is next in line to chair the disarmament committee.
D) They'll be followed by....Iran.
You can't make stuff like this up. For the love of satire, the Onion
couldn't make stuff like this up. It wouldn't be funny. It's too absurd.
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Here's a rule I'd like to see enforced at all future UN general assembly and security council sessions: if women or ethnic or religous minorities or non-property owners or political dissidents aren't allowed to vote in the country of any given delegate -- that delegate is prohibited from voting in the UN. Seems simple enough, doesn't it?
Sounds good to me.
My position is that we should make up our owned damn minds about when we should bomb another country.
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But if that day should come, not only would "what would France think?" be the last damn thing I worry about, I'd actually hope the UN would oppose our acting to defend ourselves -- and with all its diplomatically immune, expense account lavishing, illegally parking, America-hating-but-they-all-send-their-kids-to-Sidwell might. Because then, every bomb we did drop would not only exact a bit more safety and security for us here in the States, but would also extract the last remaining droplets of relevance from this giant diplomatic masturbation society.
Amen. |
