I’d say it’s even funnier than Libya being the Human Rights chair.
FreeRepublicans.com - 05:04pm on 04/30/2006
It largely has to do with how the UN is structured, or rather, how it was designed back in the 1940s. Indeed, whatever flaws exist in that structure are largely due to the ill-conceived ideas of the creators of the institution - namely the U.S. and the U.K.
Epicurus - 05:04pm on 04/30/2006
Epicurus,
Whether you’re correct about who, or what, is at fault, in the final analysis it is all the more reason to abandon this edifice to self-righteous ineptitude and find something that works.
There are several worthwhile suggestions about. And there is certainly every reason not to reinforce the inertia.
Bat One - 07:04pm on 04/30/2006
Sometimes, you just have to realize that some ideas do not work. Allowing every small country in the world to have a vote that impacts our survival is not in our Constitution, nor our best interests.
Chief RZ - 04:05am on 05/01/2006
Chief RZ,
Why bother? For if there were no corrupt member nations, would there be any substantive purpose for the organization to begin with?
Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution (the "Supremecy Clause":
"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be Supreme Law of the land; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Yeah, that report is correct.
I’d say it’s even funnier than Libya being the Human Rights chair.
It largely has to do with how the UN is structured, or rather, how it was designed back in the 1940s. Indeed, whatever flaws exist in that structure are largely due to the ill-conceived ideas of the creators of the institution - namely the U.S. and the U.K.
Epicurus,
Whether you’re correct about who, or what, is at fault, in the final analysis it is all the more reason to abandon this edifice to self-righteous ineptitude and find something that works.
There are several worthwhile suggestions about. And there is certainly every reason not to reinforce the inertia.
Sometimes, you just have to realize that some ideas do not work. Allowing every small country in the world to have a vote that impacts our survival is not in our Constitution, nor our best interests.
Chief RZ,
Why bother? For if there were no corrupt member nations, would there be any substantive purpose for the organization to begin with?
Article VI, Paragraph 2 of the United States Constitution (the "Supremecy Clause"
:
"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be Supreme Law of the land; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."