The American Spectator

p> SWISS MIX br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s The Last International : /p>

It’s a bit unfair: now that we, the people of Switzerland, are finally fully integrated in the UN (we’ve had the privilege of paying much money for UN activities for a long time, but we were not a full member), you’re telling me that the party is over. Mind you, in our country it isn’t up to a few politicians to say “hey, let’s join that club,” we had to coax a majority of the electorate into spending that extra international money. So we’re irritated.

Having been skeptical for half a century ourselves, we can understand your disdain. I suggest that the USA step out of the UN, the organization be re-established in Paris so that our delegation could save on travel expenses.

In your absence, you could read up on the meaning of veto. It was introduced to bar any action envisaged by others just in case that one member had a serious problem with it. Not easy to swallow for those who would rather go ahead, but an important way of showing respect for minority positions. You blew it. Now everybody around the globe knows that you don’t respect the rules.

The French are not easy customers. Neither are the USA and many others. From now on — that’s your message — countries are free to do whatever is in their power, unrestricted by the law.

p>I wish the coalition soldiers success with Saddam Hussein. And the br> aftermath. br> — Kurt Schori br> Biel-Bienne, Switzerland