Posted on 09/27/2009 9:53:34 AM PDT by Schnucki
So the circus has come to town again. The unspeakable Gaddafi is given a reasonable 15 minutes to speak, and goes on for an hour and three quarters of clowning, tearing up the UN charter and talking complete nonsense about swine flu. Well, you might say, that’s what Gaddafi does. But why do they let him? OK, manhandling him from the room might have been a bit much to expect, but they could at least have switched his mike off. But naturally everyone simply submitted to having their schedule thrown out and their time wasted. And then, naturally, Mugabe with more of the same. Why can this organisation not impose its own agreed rules?
Because “national leaders” are just too important, like two-year-olds taken at their own self-estimation (“Look at me!”). Every meeting starts unconscionably late, because in some parts of the world one demonstrates one’s importance by keeping other people waiting. (Rather like inviting women on dates: her punctuality will be in inverse proportion to her desirability.)
On two occasions during my diplomatic career I was offered a job at the UK representation in New York. This was quite a prestigious posting, but I wouldn’t touch it with a bargepole; I know what goes on there. You spend all morning and all afternoon in meetings where no-one has a sense of the value of time; and then at 5 p.m. you go back to the mission and the real working day starts. I had small children whom I wanted to see from time to time. A no-brainer.
No doubt some people will be thinking that all this sounds a bit racist, imperialist, etc. Where do I get
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“What the hell is the point of the United Nations?”
World socialism.
- JP
Cesspool of which zero is an active junior tin pot dictator and participant. Shameful!
None!!! This rat infested bunch of dictators, communists, and the likes, how can it be useful for peace in the world.
give the quack-dofys of the world a place to stand and talk fot hours
....like Harare, Zimbabwe.......
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To advance muzzie agendas, propaganda and make them feel their backward ‘culture’ is relevant.
The UN gives power and protection to dictators - that's a mistake that will hit a breaking point soon.
it allows “diplomats”, bureaucrats, hacks and their support lackeys from dozens of third world hellholes to come to NY and enjoy American indoor plumbing.
“What the hell is the point of the United Nations?”
1. Give legitimacy to authoritarian governments.
2. Provide a forum for despots to bash Israel.
3. Eliminate national sovereignty, especially of the USA.
4. Provide cushy jobs for foreigners and allow them to live in the USA instead of whatever hellhole they’re from.
The point of the UN is to make the US Congress look good in comparison.
DING DING DING!! We have a winner!!
the infowarrior
In a rational world - dictators who treat their people badly get overthrown - or taken over by stronger neighbors - a natural way to keep thugs in line.
The UN acting like a dictator protection agency stops this healthy process. The democracy's of the world should from a group - and work toward sane governments having more power - and insane one's being weakened.
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