U.N. -- The un-coalition

[George]

U.N. -- The un-coalition

Debra Saunders

Two weeks into the Iraq war, naysayers complained that the invasion was going too slow. War planning was flawed. There weren't enough troops. Where were the cheering Iraqis? Why wasn't there more "shock and awe" in "shock and awe?"

Then the regime imploded, Saddam Hussein's statues tumbled. As warfront successes mounted, the Carp-at-Bush Patrol needed to find some deficiency, real or perceived, to keep the news from being too good. Before victory was declared, the constant critics had started lamenting how the Bush administration is botching reconstruction.

The do-gooders' big fears are: 1) that the Defense Department, which has prosecuted the war in Iraq so successfully, will be too involved in Iraq's reconstruction, and 2) the United Nations won't have a big enough role.

Yes, I know, the United Nations does good deeds for sick children in Third World countries. But the United Nations doesn't exactly have a stellar track record when it comes to Iraq and post-conflict reconstruction.

The U.N. Security Council allowed Hussein essentially to chase weapons inspectors out of Iraq in 1998.

The United Nations oversaw the Oil for Food program that allowed Hussein to siphon off funds meant to feed his people. Despite more than 250 U.N. workers overseeing the program at various times, Hussein still managed to funnel Food for Oil money into his propaganda and palaces.

In Israel, posters of suicide bombers have popped up in U.N. Relief and Works Agency schools for Palestinian refugees.

Recently, a spokesperson for the U.N. Mission in Kosovo announced that four-hours-with and two-hours-without electricity will be the standard situation for an undetermined time -- this is after the United Nation has spent four years rebuilding Kosovo, well, in its own fashion.

I'll add that eating is what you might call a time-sensitive activity. I question whether a group that equates "final opportunity" with months and months of extensions should be entrusted with delivering food to people who are hungry right now. "Pronto" is not the United Nations' motto.

Why are people on the left pushing for the United Nations to get involved?

Mayhaps there's a conceit at play here: Methinks the U.N. lovers are more interested in the romantic notion of having people like them (intellectuals, not buzz cuts) delivering aid than they are in watching people who follow orders and carry rifles actually deliver huge quantities of food to the bodies in need of it. If my children were hungry, I'd rather rely on the U.S. military.

Yes, they're champing at the bit to get the United Nations in charge. But you have to wonder: Is their big fear the Iraqi people going without, or military types basking in any humanitarian glory?

Source: U.N. -- The un-coalition

What are your thoughts on the United Nations?

Your brother in Christ with much agape love,

George

[Guest Peanuts]

In my humble opinion, I feel the UN is necessary and needed.

There needs to be a governing body to keep super-powers like the US in check. Just because the US military can, it should not be allowed to invade and conquer any country it feels is an inconvenience.

Good ole George Bush has it all wrong. The UN should have the final say in global matters such as invading and conquering countries. The UN is not there for George Bush to push around and control. Unfortunately, he knows he is the leader of the most powerful country, and he can bully anyone and do whatever he wants...and nothing or anyone...including the UN can stop him.

We, as a global community need the UN to ensure peace and harmony. Instead of belittling the UN, we should be praying and supporting its members.

[nebula]

Well...if the UN actually did it's job in the first place . . . . :suspect:

Sorry, Peanuts, but the UN has proven itself unfaithful, untrustworthy, and inneffective in enforcing its proposals and written agendas (Yeah, note I said "written" agendas - I wonder about the "unwritten" ones. )

OK, there be my thoughts.

[Catsmeow]

Read my lips:

UN = NWO

Honestly, is anyone here surprised?

[Guest shadow2b]

In my humble opinion, I feel the UN is necessary and needed.

There needs to be a governing body to keep super-powers like the US in check. Just because the US military can, it should not be allowed to invade and conquer any country it feels is an inconvenience.

Good ole George Bush has it all wrong. The UN should have the final say in global matters such as invading and conquering countries. The UN is not there for George Bush to push around and control. Unfortunately, he knows he is the leader of the most powerful country, and he can bully anyone and do whatever he wants...and nothing or anyone...including the UN can stop him.

We, as a global community need the UN to ensure peace and harmony. Instead of belittling the UN, we should be praying and supporting its members.

YOU MUST BE KIDDING peanuts----you are kidding right??.??--- -----WHO are you defining as a

{ GLOBAL COMMUNITY??.??}---- NOT the good--old--U.S.A. I hope------ I just wonder "IF" you would be so pleased with the un "IF" there were un military troops walking the streets of the U.S.A. & going house to house with ak47's with bayonets attached & were CONFISCATING ALL privately owned firearms??.?? that's ALL as in; ALL handguns--shotguns-rifles---??.?? :upsided: -----------

also "WHY" do WE {THE U.S.A.} need the un?? what has the un ever done that was beneficial to us??

THE un has a plan for One-world-government--one-world-religion----- ever heard/read about that??.?

guess WHO would be the "president" of the global/one-world administration then??.?? POssibly-kofi annan??.?? & he wouldNOT be elected by the individual citizenz of the world but by those rulers,dictators,presidents,prime ministers of the global communities.......INteresting concept huhHHh??.??---- :upsided: :alien: -----------{Gary}---

[Catsmeow]

  what has the un ever done that was beneficial to us??

NOTHING!

[Work in Progress]

Amen, Nebula.

IMnot so humbleO, the UN is nothing but a panty waist waste. No backbone, can't take a stand if they had four legs to stand on, and is blatantly anti-American to boot.

We don't need the UN. And, if I ran my household the way the UN runs it's business, (ie: refusing to take a stand, making a rule and then not enforcing it), my home would be nothing but chaos and my kids would be unruly brats. Hmmmm......seems to me there are quite a few countries being unruly brats.........

[Catsmeow]

{Not a big UN fan...}

[ted]

The UN has its good points. Here, let me list some:

1)ummmm.....

2)errrrrr....

3)lets see......

4)how about....

5)well.........

Ok, let me think more on that.

The UN is the biggest waste of prime New York real estate. They have proven their incompetance many time over. Maybe, at one time, they had a place of worthiness, but not for awhile. Iv'e lost all faith in them since they put terrorist nations on the Security Council and Human Rights Commision. What are they thinking????

If anyone doesn't see the irony in their moves, well, only prayer can help.

Remamber in the '90's when Clinton was acting tough on Iraq? The UN and Democrats were all about air strikes and demanding that Saddam disclose his WMD program. Their own inspectors argued to stay in Iraq because they were convinced that Saddam was hiding weapons. Clinton was showering missles on radar sites (diverting attention from his personal troubles) and the White House press releases were filled with justifications for strikes against Iraq because they and the UN were convinced that WMD were in Iraq. Talk about changing ones tune. Where were the Dems and the UN when Bush went in to Iraq to do the job that they didn't have the intestinal fortitude to do themselves?

Please don't point to Scott Ritter here. 'Nuff said about him.

Reckon' I'm getting off the track here so I'll steer back to the original point.

The UN is the single most destructive and worthless gathering of human kind in history. But, there is another on the horizon, and if we don't pay attention to them, then the devil will have free reign on earth for many years. I'm talking, of course, about the EU.

Jesus, come quickly.

t.

[Guest shadow2b]

WHAT--ARE--THEY--THINKING--???????---uhhhhhHHhh??? IS that a double entendre?????mmmmmmmmmmm?

U.N.--THINKING--????????ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh----HUHH????