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Politics : John EDWARDS for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (412)	2/21/2004 6:55:22 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1381

>>, for one, understand exactly what Eleanor Roosevelt and her generation were thinking about and hoping for with the creation of the United Nations, and I find the goals to be noble and benign. What I cannot understand is the great antipathy to the UN among American conservatives. Why don't they want to be part of the United Nations? My guess is that it boils down to greed, lust for foreign resources and a disdain for "the lesser races". But it could be more. Or it could be less.<< Conservatives are skeptical of the UN because sadly it has not lived up to expectations as an effective world-wide organization. The U.S. shoulders most of the expense for the organization including providing it's headquarters on extremely expensive NYC land; however, which country does the UN criticize the most for all sorts of reasons? A short time ago Libya's Gadhafi was appointed as chairman of the UN's Human Rights Committee(if not exact title, similar). That's ridiculous. What were they thinking? During the Somalia crisis, U.S. marines were killed because the UN forbade U.S. forces to use the highly armored vehicles they initially requested. There have been numerous incidents over the yrs that demonstrated how ineffective the UN is today. In world crises they merely react & never take proactive measures to prevent the episodes. Hopefully someday they will get their act together & accomplish great things. In the meantime, the U.S. should never again allow UN commanders to control U.S. military. We should also continue to send the message that as the world's lone surviving super power, we will play the role of noblesse oblige to the nations that wield the most power within the UN. However, we will not be played for fools by them.