Comments on: The United Nations: Does it have any legitimacy? http://www.all-encompassingly.com/the-united-nations-does-it-have-any-legitimacy/ we still remember mitch hedberg Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LaurenceB http://www.all-encompassingly.com/the-united-nations-does-it-have-any-legitimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-1169 LaurenceB Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.all-encompassingly.com/?p=501#comment-1169 The delight taken by the fringe right wing in any perceived imperfection of the U.N. seems to me to be roughly equivalent to the perverse pleasure the extreme left wing takes in trumpeting any setback in the war in Iraq. Doesn't the far, far left realize that our success in Iraq is fundamentally important to the future Mideast democracy, to our future energy supply, and to global American interests in general? Isn't it pathetically immature that they hold such a grudge against Bush that they root against their own self-interest and the good of the peoples of the world? Doesn't it occur to you that the U.N. is the foremost international body for promoting peace and humanity? Even given its imperfections, is that not a good goal? Doesn't it seem pathetically immature to hold this grudge against the U.N., when clearly it is in our own interests and in the interests of the world in general to strengthen the U.N., rather than to weaken it? Just my two cents. The delight taken by the fringe right wing in any perceived imperfection of the U.N. seems to me to be roughly equivalent to the perverse pleasure the extreme left wing takes in trumpeting any setback in the war in Iraq.

Doesn’t the far, far left realize that our success in Iraq is fundamentally important to the future Mideast democracy, to our future energy supply, and to global American interests in general? Isn’t it pathetically immature that they hold such a grudge against Bush that they root against their own self-interest and the good of the peoples of the world?

Doesn’t it occur to you that the U.N. is the foremost international body for promoting peace and humanity? Even given its imperfections, is that not a good goal? Doesn’t it seem pathetically immature to hold this grudge against the U.N., when clearly it is in our own interests and in the interests of the world in general to strengthen the U.N., rather than to weaken it?

Just my two cents.

]]> By: travis http://www.all-encompassingly.com/the-united-nations-does-it-have-any-legitimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 travis Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.all-encompassingly.com/?p=501#comment-1170 unlike the lefties who desire the abolition of the US military, i don't want to end the funding of peace-making bodies. unfortunately, we can't really do anything to strengthen the UN. the more money we give them, they just spend it on scandalous things such as oil, making sex movies with impressionable young refugees, and wasteful bureaucracy. the gripe i have with the UN is that it doesn't do the job we give it enormous sums of money to do. ironically, peaceniks' usual complaint against the US military is usually that it does its job too well. unlike the lefties who desire the abolition of the US military, i don’t want to end the funding of peace-making bodies. unfortunately, we can’t really do anything to strengthen the UN. the more money we give them, they just spend it on scandalous things such as oil, making sex movies with impressionable young refugees, and wasteful bureaucracy.

the gripe i have with the UN is that it doesn’t do the job we give it enormous sums of money to do. ironically, peaceniks’ usual complaint against the US military is usually that it does its job too well.

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