Dif, I completely agree and I've been like a voice in the wilderness up here in Canada, getting strange looks from people whenever I share my very low opinion of the United Nations. It is a corrupt and useless organization but for some reason people view it with about the same affection they hold for Santa Claus.
Pablo | Homepage | 05.10.08 - 8:15 pm | #

It's a corrupt and evil bureaucrazy in search of a government.

The people who support it, do so out of, either, ignorance or optimistic wishing in the face of facts.

I just hope I never see blue helmets patrolling in my country.
AJW308 | Homepage | 05.12.08 - 11:20 am | #

If we are going to give food aid, then it has to work like this. Take $50M and go to Africa. Spend $48M on their local crops, putting fair money into the hands of their local farmers, and spend $2M to pay workers like those that missionaries will vet as reliable, decent people, to prepare and distribute the food. When we dump our crops into their market as "aid," all it does is depress the prices that their local farmers can charge.
MikeT | Homepage | 05.13.08 - 6:10 am | #

Pull out of the UN. Check.

But what about the millions who have no food in Burma (or whatever they're calling themselves these days) because their government won't accept aid. Won't those millions starve?

Better them than us.

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Joe Doakes | 05.13.08 - 11:37 am | #

Joe,

Why would it take the U.N. to do that? Why not private charitable organizations. The Red Cross used to be good for that sort of thing until they became a quasi-governmental agency.

No one else but the U.N. is doing it now because everyone expects the U.N. to do it.

So don't think they wouldn't get help, they just would get it from other sources that their repressive regime might not actually be so hostile toward.

We have no need for the U.N. PERIOD
Difster | Homepage | 05.13.08 - 12:36 pm | #