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Out of the U.N.?

Should the U.S. get out of the U.N.?

  • yes

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • no

    Votes: 7 58.3%
  • not sure

    Votes: 1 8.3%

  • Total voters
    12

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Should the U.S. get out of the U.N.?
 
No. It's a good forum for countries to negotiate with each other. The problem is when it undertakes a larger role than that.
 
talloulou said:
What would be the benefit of getting out of the U.N.?

I think that the U.S. spends too much money on the U.N. and we are not getting our moneys worth. We pay over 20% of the money that goes to the U.N.(I'm not sure of the exact percentage, it might be more).

Not to mention the whole Iraq situation and how they did not enforce their own rules/resolutions.
 
conserv.pat15 said:
I think that the U.S. spends too much money on the U.N. and we are not getting our moneys worth. We pay over 20% of the money that goes to the U.N.(I'm not sure of the exact percentage, it might be more).
Well considering that we are one of the most powerful nations I don't consider that too much.

Not to mention the whole Iraq situation and how they did not enforce their own rules/resolutions.
Yes they definitely showed their weakness in that situation, I agree. But we also showed them we don't abide by the UN when it comes to decision making. Since we don't view the UN as an authority that most be obeyed....what's the problem? At least remaining a UN member shows that we are open to cooperating with other nations, doesn't it?
 
Definitely, the UN is a paper tiger and it is corrupt......

U.S. out of UN.........UN out of U.S.
 
and the UN should get out of the US. The UN has served no useful purpose. It doesn't serve US interests, so why shouldn't we give it up as a bad deal?

It's prevented which conflict?

None.
 
The original "united nations" were the democracies (and the soviet union) that defeated the fascists in WWII. After that, it was expanded to include all kinds of dictatorships and theocracies. It's "Human Rights Commission" members has included such as Cuba, China, and Zimbabwe. It's farcical head, Kofi Annan, walks around like some kind of potentate with an entourage, seemingly oblivious to the corruption that has occurred on his watch. It serves as a forum for the representatives of dictators of toilet bowl countries to attack the U.S., all of whom would be now working in nazi slave camps except for the U.S. It did nothing to solve the cold war, is doing nothing to solve the islamofascist war. The U.S. needs to get out of this ridiculous organization, and form a new United Democratic Nations, to which only democratic nations are admitted.
 
alphamale said:
The original "united nations" were the democracies (and the soviet union) that defeated the fascists in WWII. After that, it was expanded to include all kinds of dictatorships and theocracies. It's "Human Rights Commission" members has included such as Cuba, China, and Zimbabwe. It's farcical head, Kofi Annan, walks around like some kind of potentate with an entourage, seemingly oblivious to the corruption that has occurred on his watch. It serves as a forum for the representatives of dictators of toilet bowl countries to attack the U.S., all of whom would be now working in nazi slave camps except for the U.S. It did nothing to solve the cold war, is doing nothing to solve the islamofascist war. The U.S. needs to get out of this ridiculous organization, and form a new United Democratic Nations, to which only democratic nations are admitted.

While I like the idea of a United Democratic Nations, there's no reason to abandon the UN. It's still a good forum for nations to communicate and negotiate with one another. The problem is that it claims legitimacy it should not have, and claims authority over a broad range of topics that it should not be involved in.
 
There was a thread on this a few months ago...started with this post...

Tashah said:
Established in 1945, the United Nations is the stepchild of the failed League of Nations. Initially, the United Nations only accepted membership from the Allied Alliance nations who had declared war on the Axis Powers. This caveat meant that the original UN members shared a basic common cause and moral clarity. UN membership was eventually opened to all nations of the international community... regardless of political or moral stance.

In its current formulation, the United Nations majority is composed of Third World nations ruled by dictators and authoritarian regimes. This majority has formed a resolution/voting bloc which has resulted in the organizational marginalization of democratic nations.

Although the United Nations boasts of an international legitimacy and claims a moral high ground, it is now viewed by many democratic nations as an irrelevant tower of Babel that has substituted moral equivalence for moral clarity. The track record of the UN in addressing moral crisis is on the whole quite appalling... Israel/Palestine, the Uganda of Idi Amin, Cambodia, Eritrea, Bosnia/Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Iraq, and now Sudan. It is failing in efforts to address the critical issue of nuclear prolifferation with India, Pakistan, Libya, North Korea, and Iran as prominent examples. Criminal activity such as child prostitution by UN troops in areas under its juristiction has been reported, and organizational corruption such as the Iraq Oil For Food Program is being investigated. Authoritative and despotic regimes such as Syria and Sudan have been promoted to the UN Security Council and the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Has the time now come for the democracies of the world to disengage from the United Nations and form a new international agency such as the Community of Democracies?


Here was my response...

cnredd said:
Although I believe the UN should be disbanded, how about this for a compromise...Every two years, the UN delegates have a vote on where the most pressing need is in the world(currently, I'd go with Sudan)...

Here comes the fun part...The UN packs up, gathers the airline tickets...and GOES there!

No more mid-afternoon tea breaks and immunity status...Watch the genocide firsthand from the shack-view...

Maybe that will get them to do a little problem-solving...
 
The purpose of the UN was stop another world war happening after the devestation of WW2. In that respects it has been sucessful.
The UN was vital during the Cold War as a mediator between the two superpowers.
Also it was the UN that is helping the reconstruction effort in Iraq and is also responsible for providing elecions there. So America even now still uses the UN.

I'm voting not sure, because I couldn't give a **** what America does anymore.
 
Although the United Nations boasts of an international legitimacy and claims a moral high ground, it is now viewed by many democratic nations as an irrelevant tower of Babel that has substituted moral equivalence for moral clarity. The track record of the UN in addressing moral crisis is on the whole quite appalling... Israel/Palestine, the Uganda of Idi Amin, Cambodia, Eritrea, Bosnia/Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Iraq, and now Sudan. It is failing in efforts to address the critical issue of nuclear prolifferation with India, Pakistan, Libya, North Korea, and Iran as prominent examples. Criminal activity such as child prostitution by UN troops in areas under its juristiction has been reported, and organizational corruption such as the Iraq Oil For Food Program is being investigated. Authoritative and despotic regimes such as Syria and Sudan have been promoted to the UN Security Council and the UN Commission on Human Rights.

i see things like this and i just think that rather than disband or pull out of the UN it should be strengthened and given more power
 
Willoughby said:
i see things like this and i just think that rather than disband or pull out of the UN it should be strengthened and given more power

Meh. They need reform way more than strength or power.
 
GarzaUK said:
The purpose of the UN was stop another world war happening after the devestation of WW2. In that respects it has been sucessful.
The UN was vital during the Cold War as a mediator between the two superpowers.
Also it was the UN that is helping the reconstruction effort in Iraq and is also responsible for providing elecions there. So America even now still uses the UN.

I'm voting not sure, because I couldn't give a **** what America does anymore.

The UN didn't prevent a world war after WWII. The two possible principal antagonists in such a war, the u.s. and the soviet union, were stopped by the mutual assured destruction capabilities of their nuclear arsenals, not the U.N. The U.N. has failed time and again to stop the many regional wars since WWII. The U.N. has been entirely feckless in stopping the palestine-israel conflict, involving itself only to make such sporadic idiotic gestures as its "zionism = racism" resolution of the 1970's. The reconstruction of iraq is being shouldered by u.s. taxpayers, not the u.n. Kofi Anan just asked the u.s. to step in and militarily solve the darfur war. Why? because the 7000 troops and the u.n. don't have a chance to do it themselves.

But wait - did Sudan pose any imminent threat to the U.S.? Hmmmm ... consistency doesn't seem to be the U.N.'s strong suit.
 
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