U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan contrasted American administrations of the past to the current one during his speech Monday at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Mo., the New York Times reported. Annan, who is to step down on Dec. 31, said the United States was “in the vanguard of the global human rights movement” but “that lead can only be maintained if America remains true to its principles — including in the struggle against terrorism.” And he said: “You Americans did so much, in the last century, to build an effective multilateral system, with the United Nations at its heart. Do you need it less today, and does it need you less than 60 years ago?”
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Probably so.
I’ll give the UN it’s dibs for humanitarian relief efforts, but on the policy front, they aren’t effective at all. Just a paper tiger with no sharp edges.
Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Syria just to name a few that flatly ignore all UN directives.
This man will go down as one of the worst leaders in modern history.
What does he care? What does anyone care if the Iraqis choose to kill themselves?
I say redeploy to the borders and let them slug it out.
It is unfortunate that we antagonize anybody who’s opinion differs with us. This type of differences in opinion is what makes this life interesting and non-complacent and not dull. I am suprise to hear the administration’s representative to the UN say nobody sing K…….
Bolton was correct. Singing Kumbaya is about as effective as the UN gets.
The UN sent forces to Korea and Vietnam. They stopped genocide in the Balkans.
Conservatives who criticise the UN are simply xenophobes without the inclination to find out about the rest of the world.
No doubt Rome had its equivalents–”pay no attention to those Goths across the river. We’re mighty ROME, dammit.”
Rome fell, didn’t it?
“The UN sent forces to Korea and Vietnam.”Those two wars went well.To steal from capn:US. OUT. OF. UN. NOW
CapnAmerica- You’re right about Korea being an UN operation, but I don’t remember Viet Nam being so.
There were SEATO signatories there, but I don’t remember seeing or hearing anything about the UN in VN, and I was there.
I commend and give kudos to UN director Kofi for his voicing opinion about the UN policies and the USA bullying others into their democracy belief, when in true actuality we contradict what we attempt to establish in other countries. At least he had the balls to speak-up about how the UN is really operating and it’s ineffective policies, that they allowed the USA to violate. Yeah he was the director and alot of times he got out voted in determining what the UN should or should not do.
Gster–
ROK’s were there = Republic of Korea
Capt.-I still think ROKs were there as a result of SEATO obligations.
The U.N. has done nothing but drag us into places with civil wars where we had no business being, and then told us what we could or could not do when we got there, (Bosnia, Somolia, etc.). They think they own our military. And their leadership gets worse every term. Witness, just recently Boutros-Boutros Galli, Kofi Annan, and now, some South Korean twit. Throw them out of the United States, quit supporting them, and let them set up shop, without us, in any manner, in some place they “care” so much about, like Dafur, Rwanda or (flash) Baghdad. Good bye and good luck!
And make sure that Kofi takes his criminal kid, with his embezzled millions, with him.
And, FYI, Kofi, we didn’t need the U.N. 60 years ago, and we need it even less today.
Right On 6046!! Right On!!
I agree that the U.N. is useless for world powers, but handy for the third world countries.They serve as big ugly babysitters whenever the bratty kids get to be too much.
Wiseman: And it says we are supposed to take care of third world, “bone in their noses” countries, where? Let’s see if, after his tenure, Kofi can convince LUDICROUS to accompany him to the Third World, or if he could even give a fuck? My $ is on the table.
CapnAm.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Kosovo was a NATO operation. The flacid UN couldnt come to an agreement over the Balkins. Didn’t stop them from trying to tells us what WE should do about it though.
The UN is an enabler to dictators and thugs. No more. They can’t even run a corruption free relief effort anymore.
You are more pathetic than I realized, standing up for those peices of trash. Can you say “Oil for Food”?