Ugh. Via Blogs For Victory:The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms
into cyclone-hit Myanmar to help needy survivors with no access to
contraceptives, a UN official says.
So far, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA)
said it had sent 72 800 condoms to survivors struggling to maintain their family
planning after the storm hit in early May.
I agree with Mark here-"Close it down. Implode it. Sow the ground with salt"!
"My visit left me even more deeply convinced that we not only
have a moral obligation to help displaced Iraqi families, but also a serious,
long-term, national security interest in ending this crisis.
Today's humanitarian crisis in Iraq -- and the potential
consequences for our national security -- are great. Can the United States
afford to gamble that 4 million or more poor and displaced people, in the heart
of Middle East, won't explode in violent desperation, sending the whole region
into further disorder?
What we cannot afford, in my view, is to squander the
progress that has been made."
WE mentioned earlier Sen. John McCain's support for such an institution to bypass the corrupt and ineffectual United Nations. Here's more talk on the issue from fellow presidential contender Mitt Romney, via FoxNews:"The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. "We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council."...
Romney also said he would support a new "coalition of the free nations of the world and bring those nations together so that we can act together."
"We should develop some of our own — if you will — forums and alliances or groups that have the ability to actually watch out for the world and do what's right,"
The UN is dominated by tyrannically regimes, and we shouldn't be involved with such people, who promise one thing then stab you in the back at every opportunity. They were unhelpful in winning the Cold War, and more of a hindrance than help in countless wars in the Middle East for the last half-century. Time to separate ourselves from this failure of our own creation.
Miscellaneous Concepts raises a valid point in that a quick war is often more humane than a long standoff:...nation-states like Iran that sponsor international terrorism can never be allowed to have nuclear weapons. It is something that must be done. One thing I want everyone to consider is that a 72-hour air war with Iran will end all of these issues a lot faster, with less hardship to the Iranian citizens who are respected by the US. It's just their leadership that is that big problem. It is time for the world to grow up.
Sometimes war is better in the long-run, especially if it is done and over quickly and peace can be made afterwards.
I believe that international organizations like the UN often make wars worse by constant interventions and calls for ceasefire. Better to let the states fight it out and get it over with. Some examples of ongoing wars due to UN intervention is the 67 year old Korean War (with never a peace treaty signed) and the even older Israeli/Arab Conflict. Likely the agony Africa has endured since the end of Colonialism can be blamed as much on international interference as to their inaction.
Surprisingly from Japan! I was thinking, that since the UN is now almost wholly dominated by dictatorships and corrupt socialists, the democracies should be ashamed of continuing their association with such a bankrupt organization. And I considered this from the Bible "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?" Talking about marriage, but same difference.
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