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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6047)	3/16/2003 11:45:45 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7689

Maybe he was just persuaded by the force of my logic <vbg> Here's a letter to the editor to a local suburban paper near Chicago: U.N. endorsement is not always desirable by John F. Di Leo Daily Herald, March 14, 2003 For decades, the United Nations provided an opportunity for ambassadors to talk. The yes-men of Third World dictators would enjoy lavish New York hospitality each night, then take turns at the microphone, denouncing the United States, the following day. For decades, the Soviets dominated Eastern Europe, threatened Western Europe, and spread revolution throughout the Third World. And the United Nations talked. For decades, China and North Korea subjugated their own people. Tyrants in Africa and the Middle East spent Western donations on guns and chains while practicing slavery and genocide. And the United Nations talked. Ever since its founding, U.N. advisers have promulgated the most destructive policies - encouraging every bad idea from soft currency to confiscatory taxation - directly causing the developing nations of the 1950s to become the economic basket cases of the present, from Zimbabwe to Argentina to Brazil. The U.N. record is one of abject failure. Far from objective and good-hearted problem solvers, most are the poverty pushers, propping up presidents-for-life with loan guarantees, restraining the good guys while leaving the bad guys unchallenged. What defeated Soviet communism? It was the military buildup of the United States, the resolve of President Reagan and his policy of rollback that finally forced the proletariat out of power. Throughout the Cold War, the United Nations barely lifted a finger - except to hold a microphone. So, do we really need U.N. approval now? The United States has been attacked by state-sponsored terrorists - our cities, our ships, our embassies across the world have been bombed, and thousands have been murdered. Our government has since thwarted hundreds more such attacks at immense cost. When we acted against Afghanistan, when we act against Iraq and when we take other such action elsewhere in the future, we are right to do so. We must take action for the protection of not only our own nation and our economy (though that would be enough), but also for the good of our allies, the world economy and the enslaved millions whose tyrants we will overthrow. We know the right course; it is high time we take it, whether alone or not. However many we have alongside us, we would do most of the fighting anyway. As for U.N. support, well, far better we do what we know to be right than to get the U.N.'s endorsement and have to rethink the policy!