Politics for Pros- moderated Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (46336)	5/22/2004 2:33:29 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 794009

The UN is functioning like a modern equivalent of the Renaissance Papacy, only limited by their lesser firepower. Indeed. I like your "papacy" characterization. Disfunctional and corrupt, I think were the words I used. Definitely not paragon material, which was my point. Perhaps one of the reasons for this disconnect is that I am distinguishing the UN, the entity, from the member states, also entities. The UN is much like a corporation or a union. These entities have standing independent of their components. At the risk of my getting on a rant about unions, I will offer the disfunctionality and corruption of unions as a parallel. Unions are supposed to represent their members but they can take on a life of their own and feed themselves at the expense of their members. The UN is much the same. Legitimacy doesn't come from the UN although the pompous and self-absorbed UN entity might like to think so. Legitimacy comes from the consensus of the member states, who just so happen to express that in a facility with UN on the door. We must not confuse the UN with international support. The latter is valuable.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next