[Jim Noble]

>>The United States continues to accrue new debts to the world body and is now $1.2 billion in arrears for dues and peacekeeping expenses<<

Absurd.

For us to be in arrears, the UN would have to have the power to tax us-which they don't.

[stylin_geek]

So, the U.S. provides the bulk of the peace keeping forces internationally, but also has to pay for the privilege of maintaining that force?

I would like to see the U.S. withdraw from the UN. Can you imagine the liberal intellectuals screaming about how the world would turn against us? Heck, the world doesn't like us anyway, and the UN is ineffective (at best!!) at countering the hatred directed at the U.S.

I can already see the liberal argument going something like "Well, the world hates us, and without the U.N., they will hate us even more."