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Offline Sabre

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« on: December 13, 2004, 01:56:55 PM »
Further proof that the U.N. is a lost cause?

http://www.nationalreview.com/bayefsky/bayefsky200412130835.asp
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« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2004, 02:00:06 PM »
peace is never a lost cause...and like anything, its only as usefull and strong as its members make it...
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« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2004, 02:47:32 PM »
Sic Vis Pacem, Parabellum.


And this is where the UN fails.
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« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2004, 03:08:03 PM »
Finally a thread that puts down the U.N. :rofl
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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2004, 04:03:28 PM »
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— Anne Bayefsky is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a visiting professor at Touro and Metropolitan Colleges in New York..


Who wants to take bets on whether she's invited back? :)
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« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2004, 04:19:37 PM »
Newsflash!  

Everyone hates the Jews!  

Film at 11

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Further proof that the U.N. is a lost cause?


An editorial in right-wing rag like the National Review constitutes proof of nothing.
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« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2004, 08:41:42 PM »
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peace is never a lost cause...and like anything, its only as usefull and strong as its members make it...


But peace at any price is.
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« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2004, 11:10:55 PM »
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But peace at any price is.


Which really isn't applicable to Iraq.
« Last Edit: December 13, 2004, 11:16:49 PM by Thrawn »
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2004, 11:16:36 PM »
Who mentioned Iraq?
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« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2004, 12:07:22 AM »
Always funny to see Americans bashing UN after all those vetoes you have made in SC... And then you b1tch UN doesn't work?

What does it tell about you?
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« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2004, 02:11:45 AM »
Of the 248 vetoes recorded by the five permanent Security Council members since the inception of the United Nations, the United States, as of 2001, has cast 73. (29%... as there are five members with veto, 20% would be a completely even distribution.  There were no US vetos before 1970)  38 of those were to sheild Israel from UN-SC "action".

On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted, with a 2/3 majority, a plan to partition western Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The plan was put forth by a committee consisting of representatvies of Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guatemala, Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, and Uruguay.

So does that mean that the US has, by way of those 38 vetoes, protected the integrity of a UN-GA resolution?
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« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2004, 02:24:47 AM »
Holden, I want you to read each and every resolution passed against Israel.


Not only are 99% of them non action resolutions, but some of them show such Anti-semitism that it's disgusting.
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« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2004, 02:28:50 AM »
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What does it tell about you?



That we're better off without  the UN.
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« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2004, 02:31:54 AM »
He Laser...Note the quotes around "action" in my previous post.

When the UNSC last year demanded Israel stop threatening to remove Palestinian Arafat President Yasser Arafat, the US vetoed it. Nicholas Negroponte, US ambassador to the UN, reiterated US’s decade old stand that they were not prepared to condemn Israel’s activities unless the resolution took a firm stand against Palestinian terrorist groups too.

Seems the last of the vetoes was cast to try to keep the SC resolution from being one sided.
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« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2004, 03:11:01 AM »
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That we're better off without  the UN.


Yes you would; I really hope GWB steers US away from UN :)
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