Time to dump the U.N.

(liberal thought) "Oh, another right wing kook war-monger neanderthal calling for the U.S. to get out of the UN" ...

read on ... it ain't like that

Is it not funny how things that are bad or useless or whatever seem to be set up to go on forever (like welfare programs, social security, etc), whereas things that are good are always set up to expire (like tax cuts)? I would guess that if I thought about it long enough, I could argue that the fact that something IS set up to be "forever" is what eventually dooms it ... since "forever" often tends to fall away from accountability ... but I don't want to think that hard.

I think that the U.N. is now at a point where it is so completely functionally useless, that we can make a strong argument that it is time to simply dispose of it. Take for instance the concept of "peacekeepers" ... the current war demonstrates how effective that is/was ... but you even go beyond that to the rapes and ineptitude (can you believe there were UN forces in Lebanon that were supposed to be keeping track of the disarmament of the terrorists?) and other stuff.

However, none of this is new ... this group has been inept for a long time. My point is even deeper than that ... I think that this organization *causes* a lot of the problems in the world today. Whether it is the UN position on the current war, or the situation in Iraq, or the US held terrorists, (and on and on and on and on) ... this group has played a significant role in insuring the worst possible situation will come about, especially in regards to (against) the US and its allies.

For instance ... in Lebanon the UN was supposed to be doing something (although we now seem to be finding out that they actually really were setup to do absolutely nothing) about keeping Hesbollah under wraps ... even if it just means reporting violations to Kofi. In the meantime the murderous terrorists literally setup what can only be thought of as a fairly advanced civilian based military complex ... specifically designed to be a formiddable killing force while garnering as much public sympathy (for so-called civilian deaths) as possible. 13000 missiles ... must have snuck them in using golf bags or something.

Take Iraq ... Saddam was literally just playing the terrorist / tin-horn dictator hand as usual ... pretense of cooperation and UN diplomacy (wink wink, nod nod ... here's a billion in your oil trading account). However, by soft peddling with that brute for how many years, the UN got him setup to expect soft treatment. Imagine if the UN would have stuck to its guns and actually enforced its unanimous resolutions?

How about the terrorist thing? The UN is pushing the extremely dangerous position of terrorist appeasement status quo ... treating them as a legitimate fighters, heck even treating them as uniformed (qualified for Geneva conventions). This is extremely dangerous, and eventually creates a sort of sovereignty (albeit without any real land) for the most viscious SOB around ... if you can brutally murder a large group of people, the UN becomes your tool of choice for cover as the government of those people is virtually pounced upon by the UN goofs who beg for restraint.

By the way Kofi ... let's throw your son out there in front of the Iraqi people, and after they cut off his head we can have the conversation about "restraint".

But I digress ... so I think it is easy to make a very strong case that not only is the U.N. totally useless / ineffective ... but that there is a very real argument that they make things worse.