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Found a draft UN summit agreement with Bolton's | by Esteis | 2005-09-12 14:17:45 |
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Um. Forgot linky. Silly me. Linky inside. | by Esteis | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Don't have time for all of these but... | by VivianC | 2005-09-12 14:40:53 |
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I agree, this change is an improvement. | by Esteis | 2005-09-12 14:45:28 |
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There are other problems... | by VivianC | 2005-09-12 14:56:38 |
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Of course it's not the worst thing I can complain | by Esteis | 2005-09-12 15:12:58 |
| Answers to your arguments |
by basher20 |
2005-09-12 18:26:48 |
1. The UN has become little more than a debating society largely because of the fact that the people there think that vague pronouncements like the one in the article can substitute for substantive action on real issues that affect real people's lives.
2. "respect for nature" has to bee seen in terms of realistic, cost/benefit analysis. Unlike the current "Sorry Mr. African, but your child has to die from malaria because somewhere down the line some bird's eggs might be damaged if we spray your hut with DDT" position of the EC and WHO, among others.
3. Define foreign assistance. Today most of what is considered to be foreign assistence either goes into the Swiss bank accounts of middlemen, or is routed back to source countries through preferntial trade deals and consulting contracts. Giving people more money to do more of the same things that don't work helps no one who really needs it.
4. Fighting corporate corruption is already the province of individual governments. TO the extent that they can cooperate, fine, but one of the fundamental requirements of soverignty is the ability to enforce one's own laws, and to protect the rights and dignity of all people. The United Nations was not, and never should be a law enforcement agency.
5. Nuclear weapons are the first truly deterrent weapons systems devised by man. ICBMs are very useful in keeping rouge states in line. The very fact that nations like North Korea say that they need them as a deterrent bears that out. Remember how effective the Washington Naval treaty and the Munich Agreement were in preventing WWII
6. The ICC charter is overly broad in that it gives virtually all countries the ability to order the arrest and detention of pretty much anyone that they accuse of "war crimes" anywhere in the world. It has already been used by Lybia to issue arrest warrants for members of the US government for actions which may or may not have occurred in Nicaragua. The benefit to the US is the ability to shield it's citizens from abusive regimes such as Lybia, Myanamar, or China.
As for your conclusion, the problem with the UN is that it tries to be both a forum for discussion and an executive body. It has shown itself to be inept at enforcing it's own resolutions, incapable ofcontrolling its own bureaucracy, and completely willing to sell out its core principles in the name of promoting some idea of consensus. |
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