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Not United Nations

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It’s a club of thugs, that long ago outlived its usefulness:

We are reminded once more of the truth that Solzhenitsyn uttered many years ago: The U.N. is not the united nations but the united governments or regimes. And that body at large is no better than the governments or regimes that compose it. And, though the world has gone far in democratization, there are still many regimes that are as savage as can be imagined. And they sit on such panels as human- and women’s-rights commissions. You know? Understandable — but still, as I said, hard to swallow.

We need to set up something else, with some minimum entry requirements.

12 thoughts on “Not United Nations”

  1. NATO? But I’m an optimist, I believe the UN can and will be reformed. It will always remain a bureaucratic monster of course.

  3. The U.N. is your classic status quo institution. Everyone in it is a beneficiary of the system that sent them there. They have no reason to change anything. The system (for them at least) worked, so there is no need to change it.

  4. Love the UN. As long as they act like petty gangsters it gives us cover from power grabs like what’s happening in the EU.

  5. I believe the UN can and will be reformed. It will always remain a bureaucratic monster of course.

    When the best you can hope for with reform is that it will be a less monstrous monster, I think killing it off altogether is the better choice.

  8. Our ROI w/government is deeply negative. It’s got to go… I hear you and I agree, but it’s not gonna happen.

  9. I actually thing we’re better off with Iran in charge of women’s rights, or Cuba in charge of human rights, than we would be with England or France in charge of those things. No one takes Iran or Cuba seriously, and hence the UN remains totally ineffectual.

    The real problem with the UN isn’t Libya on the Human Rights Commission. It’s Luxembourg determining the small arms policies of the UN, or Brazil determining the moon policy. It’s the seemingly harmless countries that are able to slip really damaging treaties under the radar.

  10. The EU has minimum requirements. If you do not have certain human rights you cannot join. In fact the list is awfully long, tedious, and Byzantine.

  12. The UN isn’t a government.

    No, but we’re equally stuck with it and for similar reasons.

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