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To: Neocon who wrote (7179)	5/8/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Neo, I can imagine the horror, the responses I get, even just on this thread, for pointing out what seems to me to be obvious is really indicative. Ive submitted your post almost word to word on the cultural and political incongruence of the UN on this thread in the past. It seems to fall on deaf ears. When the most basic cultural assumptions are not shared amongst member nations, there is little chance of a working world politic being implemented. A fair world body would have to be representative, and as Ive posted before, the US and Europe surely are not going to submit their sovereignty to the majority vote of China (1.5 bills make a nice headstart), nor is a fundamentalist nation such as Iran or Afghanistan going to submit its sovereignty and religious precepts to the humanism of the West. And these are only simplistic issues, and the tip of the tip of the iceberg...