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Philippines' Duterte threatens to quit U.N. after drugs war censure
Reuters ^ | Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:47pm EDT | Karen Lema and Manuel Mogato

Posted on 08/21/2016 6:30:39 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

The UN has problems with reducing drug abuse? It’s almost as if they profit from it or something.


21 posted on 08/21/2016 7:51:46 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Why is the UN trying to reduce dug abuse and who is paying for it? The less they do, the better the world will be. One of the most money grabbing corrupt organizations anywhere.


22 posted on 08/21/2016 7:57:52 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: lquist1

The UN is important there because old Carlos Romulo, President Quezons PR guy and great international celebrity of the 1940’s was a big backer and early organizer of the UN and was an early UN secretary-general.
He participated in some of the great events of those days, among them he got the Phil delegation to arrange for a positive vote for Israel in 1948.
CPR was also the go-to guy in organizing votes favorable to the US among the ‘third world” of the day, and was a player in the Cold War PR struggle.
So its a big deal for the sake of one small man, but these are good reasons. The country has been proud of this.
In a historical perspective the Philippines turning its back on the UN is big.


23 posted on 08/21/2016 9:01:25 PM PDT by buwaya
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24 posted on 08/21/2016 9:05:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

What has the UN ever accomplished?


25 posted on 08/22/2016 2:54:08 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Berosus

The UN is cover for the globalists who want world domination and control


26 posted on 08/22/2016 2:58:51 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Mollypitcher1

Not much, but it successfully fought to keep South Korea free.


27 posted on 08/22/2016 4:08:33 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

It wasn’t the UN. It was America and allies and who is still there now? The USA still defending South Korea.


28 posted on 08/22/2016 5:27:21 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Olog-hai

We ought to get rid of the U.N. as it is 100 plus countries crapping on the U.S.A.


29 posted on 08/22/2016 6:05:59 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: buwaya

“The UN is important there because old Carlos Romulo, President Quezons PR guy and great international celebrity of the 1940’s was a big backer and early organizer of the UN and was an early UN secretary-general...”

I knew none of this history — thanks for sharing. This explains quite a bit about what I saw when I lived over there.


30 posted on 08/22/2016 6:42:08 AM PDT by lquist1
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To: hinckley buzzard

The US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!


31 posted on 08/22/2016 3:29:51 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Well, wherever the blue helmets go, child rape goes way up!


32 posted on 08/22/2016 3:30:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Olog-hai

dead people don’t commit crimes

that applies to political crimes as well


33 posted on 08/22/2016 3:36:46 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: Olog-hai

Brexit and now a possible U-Nexit?

Fingers crossed.


34 posted on 08/22/2016 3:40:02 PM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Mollypitcher1

No, it was the UN - look it up.

As for still being there, that is our fault; South Korea is still free.


35 posted on 08/23/2016 3:05:30 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Get your head screwed on straight. OUR TROOPS did the fighting! OUR troops are still there. THAT IS WHY SOUTH KOREA IS STILL FREE! Look what happened in Vietnam!!!!!


36 posted on 08/23/2016 3:14:59 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Vietnam was “US and allies” (which didn’t include Britain); Korea was UN troops (combat units from about 15 countries, including Britain, Turkey, Canada, France - all the ones you see in MASH episodes - the COMBAT WOUNDED from other countries).

I’m sorry the truth hurts.


37 posted on 08/23/2016 3:36:35 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

I’m quite aware of the other countries which contributed forces to these wars. What you are missing is the question who shouldered the burden and is still shouldering the burden?

Sixteen UN nations supplied fighting units and five sent military hospitals and field ambulances in Koreaa. Australia was one of the very first to contribute military personnel from all three services. The single largest UN contributor was the United States of America (USA) which at one stage had 140,000 personnel deployed in direct combat roles in Korea. Great Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Colombia, Ethiopia, South Africa, New Zealand, Turkey, Greece, Thailand, Philippines and Luxembourg sent fighting units. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, India, Italy contributed military hospitals and field ambulances to the cause.

The United Nations Command (UNC) provided the core military and strategic direction for the anti-communist war effort in Korea. The USA provided the high command for the UNC as well as the vast majority of the logistics, air and naval power, artillery and military infrastructure which made possible the continuation of the war despite repeated reverses suffered due to the actions of an aggressive, determined and proficient foe. The British Commonwealth sent the next most numerous of the UN contingents. As well as Commonwealth air and naval units, the 1st British Commonwealth Division, in which Australian infantry battalions served, took part in some of the hardest-fought battles of the war.

I think you will note it was the US that contributed the vast majority of logistics, etc.

Vietnam, unlike Korea, was not fought under U.N. mandate. It was a war of entirely different characteristics from any other war we had ever fought. Our Military won the battles, but the Politicians gave away the victory. I will despise our so called leadership during this war forever and that includes that sniveling idiot John Kerry who should have been tried for TREASON along with Jane Fonda!


38 posted on 08/23/2016 5:18:31 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

I think it is an important point that a UN mandate existed in Korea but not Vietnam; in the latter we were winning battles for a country that never allowed elections (because “our side” would have lost them).


39 posted on 08/23/2016 10:23:55 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Off line. Frankly, we should have listened to the French....but the Johnson monster................


40 posted on 08/23/2016 10:31:28 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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