Posted on 01/06/2005 5:44:18 AM PST by flitton
Always has been;
any time the State Department has sold-out U.S. interests, you can bet Colon Powell was behind it.
That's wishful thinking. Its like saying that the GOP pretended that Clinton was in charge Kofi is not humiliated in the least in this situation. This appears that the U.S. submitted to the authority of the UN. That may not be reality, but appearances mean a lot.
Heck, we were up and running before Kofi took his skiis off; he was reduced to "asking" Powell if the UN could be part of "our" coalition.
This is not the general perception. The average world citizen will perceive this as the U.S. being stingy and after being shamed by Kofi and crew, we joined the UN effort in order to save face.
Bush has got to learn, that if you play hard ball, you can't appear to back down. The US would have been better off just withholding any announcement of pledges, waiting until others announced theirs and then pledging a comparable amount.
None of the money or aid is going to help the reputation of the US with the Islamic world or in South East Asia. Even if they do realize that a huge amount of help is coming from the US, you can never buy love. In fact, there is no faster way to lose someone's respect than to buy them something or give them money.
I do not agree.
I thought U.N. efforts were "bogged down". So now we are disbanding a group that got aid to the region in hours so the U.N. will get the credit and won't look as useless and inept as it really is?
"Thank God it was a Republican President that ceded power to the UN. I was always afraid it would be a Democrat. I figure we'll get a better deal." Doe Eyes
Respectfully, could you point out where I've gotten it wrong?
You nailed it...I do agree.
non sequitur...or as Mr. Spock would say, "illogical."
If that's the way you want to weasel out of it, fine by me.
It's an old playground trick...help's a feller locate the cowards in a crowd.
A cookie to Kofi. He knows he can't US bash anymore. He's been bitch-slapped.
Heh Heh...that's awfully big of you.
I can't wait to see the changes that will take place when Condi gets in there. I'm very excited!!!!
That's surprise (rare spelling error).
dammit the f**king UN cannot be trusted!. I wonder how long until we hear about the Tsunami Releif Scandel?
The UN is nothing more than the world's biggest organized crime rganization. Always has been. The UN should have been disbanded LONG ago.
Sad but true.
Oh, they are so cute when they're being so naive. It won't matter what role the U.S. has when the time comes for doling out the blame.
No but it was his idea. ANd GHWB (Bush the 1st) agreed to make the euros happy.
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