Dying gasps at the U.N.

Washington Times ^ | 1/29/03 | Martin Gross

[kattracks]

The League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations, is now ugly history for its failure to react to major threats to the peace.

Formed in 1920 as a result of World War I, is started with some small initial successes. It settled such disputes as the Swedish-Finnish argument over the Aland Islands in 1923, guaranteed the security of Albania, and prevented the outbreak of war between Greece and Bulgaria in 1925. In addition, like the current United Nations, it gave aid to refugees, helped suppress the drug traffic, pioneered surveys of worldwide health, and even extended financial aid to needy states.

[tubebender]

I'm quite sure if the US unseats Saddam the UN will be all to happy to claim victory even though they will be hiding under a rock.

[DoughtyOne]

Put a fork in it (the UN).  It's done!
Hey, I don't get to use this pitchfork much anymore.

We can finally put all those blue flags to good use.

[MHT]

Guess we don't have to worry about paying the late-fee on the back dues anymore.....

[MamaLucci]

...or perhaps to move to Paris, where they can establish a new debating society without honor or courage.

THWAP!!

[Mo1]

Failing that, we should ask the United Nations to leave New York and settle either in Geneva, the home of the failed League, or perhaps to move to Paris, where they can establish a new debating society without honor or courage.

Works for me

[JustPiper]

The UN stopped serving its purpose long ago, should have been disbanded like all the SD cells(Alias pun)

[fporretto]

Steven Den Beste wrote very incisively on this. Basically, he contends that either the UN and the rest of NATO must get behind the US effort to disarm Iraq, and after that to bring the anti-terrorism campaign to a triumphant conclusion, or they will have decreed themselves irrelevant.

For these international arrangements to let the world's security rest on the shoulders of a single nation, which has stood alone as the guarantor of such peace as we've enjoyed for sixty years, is the same as saying "International alliances and communities of nations don't matter." And in truth, they don't.

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