[Yardstick]

I hope the UN remains irrelevant and never gets to a point of being able to effectively act on its principles.

[Wolfstar]

Amen to that, Yardstick! This wasn't just a great speech, it is right up there among the top handful of the most important speeches in American history. However, you mentioned the one note in the speech that made me uncomfortable. Those scheming to create a global government already are trying to ease their way toward giving the UN the ability to tax and to have its own armed forces.

I fully understand what the President did today and why. And I am in full agreement with him about Iraq. But one potential unintended consequence of the challenge he issued to the UN could be that it will give the global government types ammunition to move forward with their goals. I would not worry about this except for the fact that it is inevitable we will have another Left/Dem president some day, and most of them just salivate over the prospect of destroying our national sovereignty.