http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3944374
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"Only really the UN can do that job," she told BBC Radio Four's PM
programme.
"It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it
well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers."
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This is BS. If the UN cannot do it without the great powers, and the great
powers can do it without the UN, what kind of authority does it have?
None. None, that is, independent of the great powers. So it is not the moral
or any other kind of authority. This is not "might is right" but "right is
might". On no level is the UN "right"; our Constitution and not the UN
charter is the superior system. Because it is right, we have the might.
(Jeez I'm beginning to sound like Jesse Jackson...)
They call Bush 'stingy', accuse him of heartlessness, then expect him to
turn around and kiss their corrupt, left-wing, socialist a$$e$ and pour
billions into their coffers when tragedy strikes, so that they can inflate
their own significance and influence. This, after the Oil-for-Food fiasco.
Thank God Dubya won. These clowns need to be shut down. Failing that, at
least ignored or marginalized.
If the UN or anything like it is ever to work, it needs to be re-formed
under completely different management and according to principles of
government and economics that actually work.
Here's to the Founding Fathers! Here! Here!
(Buzz off, Alger Hiss, Karl Marx & Co.)
- Bob
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"In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths or first
principles upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend. These contain
an internal evidence which, antecedent to all reflection or combination,
commands the assent of the mind. Where it produces not this effect, it must
proceed either from some disorder in the organs of perception, or from the
influence of some strong interest, or passion, or prejudice... Men, upon too
many occasions, do not give their own understandings fair play; but,
yielding to some untoward bias, they entangle themselves in words and
confound themselves in subtleties." -- Federalist Paper #31 [Hamilton]
Translation to modern English:
"If the obvious isn't obvious to you, you're probably mildly or seriously
delusional and/or on somebody's payroll... Just because someone has an
alphabet soup after their name doesn't mean that you are wrong and they are
right. Oh, and 'is' really and simply means 'is.'"
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