We should do away with the UN! It does not work

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When the tsunami hit last year, hundreds of thousands of people died within minutes. The Australians and Americans arrived within hours. The UN was unable to get to Banda Aceh for weeks. Instead, the humanitarian fat cats were back in New York and Geneva holding press conferences warning about post-tsunami health consequences—dysentery, cholera, BSE from water-logged cattle, etc.—that, its spokesmen assured us, would kill as many people as the original disaster. But this never happened, any more than did their predictions of disaster for Iraq: “The head of the World Food Program has warned that Iraq could spiral into a massive humanitarian disaster.” Or for Afghanistan: “The UN Children’s Fund has estimated that as many as 100,000 Afghan children could die of cold, disease and hunger.”
 
What does that bumper sticker say? “Take the US out of the UN and take the UN out of the US?” Yeah, that’s it. 🙂
 
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Isidore_AK:
We should headquarters the UN in Hell where it belongs… 👍
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You want to put them in the DMV?
 
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Lance:
When the tsunami hit last year, hundreds of thousands of people died within minutes. The Australians and Americans arrived within hours. The UN was unable to get to Banda Aceh for weeks.
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Australia and the US are UN countries. There is no UN navy, no UN army and no UN air force. Without military forces the UN cannot mount a military response other than through its member nations.

unhabitat.org/Tsunami/priorities.asp

UN-HABITAT’s immediate response to the tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 focused on the provision of a range of immediate measures. These included emergency and transition shelter, the restoration of critical infrastructure, particularly water and sanitation facilities, and emergency clean-up operations. It also looked into land use planning, and helping survivors find work and rebuild their communities. To achieve an effective recovery, the very first weeks after the disaster were crucial to building the foundations of longer-term sustainable rehabilitation.
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    All of these activities, initiated immediately after the disaster, were linked to longer-term recovery and reconstruction in affected areas, seeking to leverage investment. Apart from emergency interventions where shelter was the central challenge, UN-HABITAT has worked on broader sustainable recovery that minimises the risk of future catastrophes, for instance, by establishing sound physical planning systems and using appropriate building technologies to protect new settlements from similar threats.
undp.or.id/tsunami/docs/UNDP-Tsunamireport-final.pdf

The UN, with on-the-ground
programmes in each of the affected
countries, was able to dispatch
early assistance to the stricken
areas almost immediately after the
disaster struck. The massive relief
effort, which ensured that survivors
would have sufficient access to food,
shelter and medical attention, was
credited with limiting a second
disaster—an outbreak of disease and
hunger. UNDP, through the UN
Resident Coordinators, worked with
national officials, international
humanitarian agencies and nongovernmental
organizations to help
coordinate this effort.
 
The United Nothings has been useless for a long time. All they’re good for is sending condoms and IUD’s to poverty-striken African countries with no food, and taking oil bribes from Middle Eastern dictators.

We should throw them out of the country, and have them set up shop in a new location someplace…Ascension Island might be a good locale.
 
Though there may be some differences and departures, in general doesn’t Pope Benedict XVI support the UN and didn’t JPII?
 
I can hardly wait for the anti-Americans who despise America’s dominance to come out of the woodwork.

I am sure Matt25 is just dying to cut and paste the words of someone other than himself.
 
LOL…I was two minutes too late. Thanks, Matt, for being oh so predictable.
 
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Though there may be some differences and departures, in general doesn’t Pope Benedict XVI support the UN and didn’t JPII?
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Yes, very much so. In his message for the World Day of Peace 2006 the Holy Father said this-

vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20051213_xxxix-world-day-peace_en.html

The first to benefit from a decisive choice for disarmament will be the poor countries, which rightly demand, after having heard so many promises, the concrete implementation of their right to development. That right was solemnly reaffirmed in the recent General Assembly of the United Nations Organization, which this year celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation. The Catholic Church, while confirming her confidence in this international body, calls for the institutional and operative renewal which would enable it to respond to the changed needs of the present time, characterized by the vast phenomenon of globalization. The United Nations Organization must become a more efficient instrument for promoting the values of justice, solidarity and peace in the world. For her part, the Church, in fidelity to the mission she has received from her Founder, is committed to proclaiming everywhere ‘‘the Gospel of peace’’. In the firm conviction that she offers an indispensable service to all those who strive to promote peace, she reminds everyone that, if peace is to be authentic and lasting, it must be built on the bedrock of the truth about God and the truth about man. This truth alone can create a sensitivity to justice and openness to love and solidarity, while encouraging everyone to work for a truly free and harmonious human family. The foundations of authentic peace rest on the truth about God and man.
 
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Seamus:
What does that bumper sticker say? “Take the US out of the UN and take the UN out of the US?” Yeah, that’s it. 🙂
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that about sums up my personal viewpoint about the UN

they are too corrupt and anti-American and i hold dual citizenship with the US and Canada

and the UN hates Canada, too, the UN is useless INHO

-horab
 
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Seamus:
I can hardly wait for the anti-Americans who despise America’s dominance to come out of the woodwork.

I am sure Matt25 is just dying to cut and paste the words of someone other than himself.
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What on earth in Matt’s post do you manage to construe as “anti-American”? It seems you think that anyone who fails to endorse the USA as the world’s one and only true saviour whose government must be allowed free reign to do whatever it likes throughout the world, is “anti-American”.

Yes the UN is far from perfect, but as the popes have repeatedly said, it is the best existing structure we have on which to build a just world community. The Catholic Church and its officials make lots of mistakes, omissions, and abuses too. Do you think we should abolish or withdraw from the Church and try to get along without it?
 
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hi i don’t want to step on any toes coz i’m new here but…

in the UN they spend alot of time denouncing the US

they call them a “terrorist nation”,

the UN mishandled Sadaam…

and the oil4food scandal they dont want to talk about

my question is more of why the US would want to fund a group that hates them? thx

-horab
 
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Horab:
my question is more of why the US would want to fund a group that hates them?
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The purpose of the UN is to prevent WWIII. OK, that didn’t happen, but most people are afraid that if we get rid of it, there will be no international platform for countries to come to for grievences.
 
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What on earth in Matt’s post do you manage to construe as “anti-American”?
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Oh, my friend Matt and I have quite the history. If you doubt that, I would suggest that you read the 10,001 posts that Matt has made, all the mindless copying & pasting that he does notwithstanding. No one–no sane person, that is–could look to all the effort that Matt puts into being critical of the United States and then conclude that he is something less than anti-American.
 
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Horab:
My question is more of why the US would want to fund a group that hates them? thx

-horab
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Someone call that Harper guy, the new Prime Minister. I think we found the new Canadian Ambassador to the US, if not the UN, in Horab.

Great post/question, Horab. 🙂
 
Excerpted from Mark Steyn:

The UN is a shamefully squalid organization whose corruption is almost impossible to exaggerate. If you think that Iraq is a God-awful mess , then try being the Balkans or Sudan or even Cyprus or anywhere where the problem’s been left to the United Nations. If you don’t want to bulk up your pension by skimming the Oil-for-Food program, no need to worry. Whatever your bag, the UN can find somewhere that suits—in West Africa, it’s Sex-for-Food, with aid workers demanding sexual services from locals as young as four; in Cambodia, it’s drug dealing; in Kenya, it’s the refugee extortion racket; in the Balkans, sex slaves. On a UN peace mission, everyone gets his piece.

Didier Bourguet, a UN staffer in Congo and the Central African Republic, enjoyed the pleasures of 12-year-old girls, and as a result is now on trial in France. His lawyer has said he was part of a UN pedophile network operating from Africa to southeast Asia. But has anyone read anything about that? If you’re going to sexually assault prepubescent girls, make sure you’re wearing a blue helmet.

The child sex racket is only the most extreme example of what’s wrong with the UN approach to the world. The folks who have been under the UN wing the longest are the most wrecked people on the face of the earth: the Palestinians. UN territories like Kosovo are the global equivalent of inner-city housing projects with the blue helmets as local enforcers for the absentee slum landlord. By contrast, a couple of years after imperialist warmonger Bush showed up, Afghanistan and Iraq have elections, presidents and prime ministers.
 
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