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7.28.06 @ 12:01AM

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Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Bring Back the League of Nations:

Thanks RET, well said.

I do have a question and possibly RET or others would care to address it. Why are we still members of the UN? I don't ask this lightly or in a facetious manner.

Is it that we as Americans think we can actually change or influence these buffoons? That we can curtail the corruption? That we can monitor the billions of dollars we give the UN? Are we afraid that if we leave some "resolutions" are going to be imposed on the United States of America? If so, who is going to enforce them, the UN?

The whole edifice at Turtle Bay houses nothing, with rare exception, but an international collection of bloviators and con artists, if not down right thieves and murderers.

At the very least we should throw this garbage out of our country and let NYC make better use of the property. I'm sure the EU would love to accommodate them.

If the UN did not exist a novelist would have to create it as satire. So please, answer my question; I'm perplexed.
-- Jim Woodward
Fruitland, Maryland

Not much that the sometimes kooky Tyrrell says ever passes my "laugh test."... (That is, can you say it out loud to someone without them laughing), but he's 100 percent right about the United Nations. While it is a noble thought, and truly inspiring that the greater nations like the U.S., the UK, Canada, Japan, Germany etc. will allow 2-bit dictatorships and failed nations to have a voice in the world, the failures of the UN have now become a blight on this good earth. Kofi Annan is a corrupted and ineffectual leader, ironically, from a corrupt and ineffectual continent. Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Egypt are just some examples of the pariah states that are allowed to have a voice in a world that they contribute nothing too. I'd love to see a Western Alliance created that included the strong democracies of the world. Having seen a bit of John Bolton in action, one hopes he can kick some butt, but with friends like China and Russia....Who needs enemies.
-- Nathan Maskiell
Melbourne, Australia

I believe it's time to declare the UN a failure and pull the plug. Every petty dictator in the world uses the UN to give themselves legitimacy and disproportionate influence in world affairs. Continuing to fund this corrupt anti-American organization is simply throwing good money at a lost cause. With the U.S. out, the UN would hopefully collapse in short order.
-- Chris B.
New Jersey

We should give serious thought to leaving the UN and at the least, moving it out of this country. It is anti-American and Mr. Tyrrell could write a book about its corruption. As a start we could consider enactment of legislation to limit the time that the UN can meet. A wise man once told me while I considered purchasing a race horse, "Don't buy anything that eats while you sleep." While in session, the UN eats away at our interests and wallet. Let's try to limit their sessions to two weeks every six months. The UN pols might like the proposal as they maneuver to keep the same pay.
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

It should have come as no surprise to Senator Voinovich that John Bolton has cut so able a figure as our UN envoy over the months since his interim appointment by the President. Ambassador Bolton, after all, came to the job with that best of qualifications: he was clearly detested by the opposition party and the liberal news media, a sure sign of brilliance and promise in any conservative public figure.

One wonders how the Senator will weather the equally predictable lack of interest that the New York Times, CBS News and other liberal news outlets will display toward him and his change of heart regarding Bolton -- now that the Senator is no longer a useful anti-Administration prop.
-- Ron Goodden
Atlanta, Georgia

Can anything be said for the United Nations?
Observers of their absurd gyrations
Must think themselves at some kind of zoo
Although most animals it is true
Adhere to a certain native ability
To offer their species some sort of stability.

Rapes, corruption, oil for food to hide,
No respectable lions pride would abide
This cowardice of weakling elites,
Nor would peacocks strut with these soulless effetes.

Baboons must despair of the human race,
Scratching their heads as they watch the embrace
With which otherwise sane people uplift this band
Of thieves and tyrants and can't wait to hand

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