Commentary on the UN

Sadistic-Savior · #1 (**permalink**) 06-02-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by JAMES LILEKS

Red Staters demur. They regard the U.N. as a body with all the humility of the Senate and none of the charm.

Oh, it does some good things; it collects dimes for Third World diseases, makes sad faces about genocide, and declares the Year of the Child or the Decade of the Marmoset or the Fortnight of the Brine Shrimp. It's the busybody aunt who spends Thanksgiving making everyone feel guilty they don't care about endangered Tibetan yaks. There's talk on the right of pulling out of the U.N. and forming a League of Democracies -- leave the kingdoms, theocracies, klepto-states and madhouse nations to rant and stew. Nice idea. Never happen. Not even three years of unbridled Bolton will make a dent in the joint.

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/lileks053105.html

Heh heh..."makes sad faces about genocide" heh heh

I really like that idea about "a league of democracies". The author makes it sound like this isnt a new idea, but I have never heard of it before. Has anyone else? Sounds like a great idea to me.

Gian55 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-02-2005, 04:36 PM

I still think, over 80 years later, the League of Nations fiasco has ruined that word for good in regards to international diplomacy.

A "Common Friendship of Democracies" or "Association of Non-Bastard Nation States" is a good idea. Hell, we already have the UN HQ ready in New York. And members, like England, France (yes, even France

), Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, India, etc. could get perks for being democratic nations. Like preferred trading or sharing of certain military equipment.

An us against them (being non-democracies) would be a great idea; it'd make dictatorships and theocracies less powerful.

I see no reason why Libya holds a temporary seat on the security council just because it's supposedly "fair." Or why China, despite its size, is a permanent member on the UN-SC. Communist, anti-human rights nations should not be in charge of security...

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