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Don Perkins
Citizen
Username: Cowboy
Post Number: 223
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 2:17 pm: |     |
The United Nations has been around for quite a while.
Can you name it's successes?
How about it's failures?
It is high time for a new approach. Why not put together a League of Democratic Nations to offer
some true competition for and an alternative to the UN. It's broken and doesn't work well. Maybe a whole new approach is needed. |
Michaela May
Citizen
Username: Mayquene
Post Number: 4
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 11:47 am: | |
I think the last time the United States and other nations abandoned the world's international body, then the League of Nations, we got World War II...
Would not it be ironic to have a new world body built by democratic countries who don't want to participate in the U.N. because they don't like the outcome? Democracy means sometimes you don't get what you want. |
Don Perkins
Citizen
Username: Cowboy
Post Number: 236
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 12:13 pm: | |
As an example, the UN passes resolutions and then fails to follow through by enforcing them.
But no matter, the UN will soon be busy instructing Howard Dean on what he can and cannot do as POTUS.
Doesn't that make you feel safer? |
Michaela May
Citizen
Username: Mayquene
Post Number: 5
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 - 12:23 pm: | |
Antagonizing the international community certainly doesn't make me feel safer.
And the lack of WMD casts even bigger doubt on our reasons for invading Iraq. See today's Washington Post -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60340-2004Jan6.html |
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