For all their nasty fights, maybe George W. Bush and the United Nations were meant for each other. They speak the same wide-eyed language of idealism, setting goals that are heavy on optimism and light on planning. And they love to strike heroic notes in the face of discordant reality. Bush tapped into that romantic synergy at the General Assembly Tuesday, calling on the U.N. and its members to rise to the promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and using that founding U.N. text as a sounding board for a speech on global liberation from tyranny, poverty and disease. More on President Bush's speech
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the united nations, will all its good intentions and good will, is entirely arbitrary.
all talk and no action.
all they they do is look down their ivory tower noses as those less fortunate and say "hey, cut that out or else"...with never showing a hint of "or else".
A Democracy is only as strong as its citizens and the United Nations is only as strong as the member nations. In 1990-1991, it was very strong but that is when we had the favor of the international community...we have squandered our 9/11 world support and it will take a new president to mend the fences...they are mendable and so is the UN if the USA leads the way.
well i truly wish for the UN to become a respected figure again, because as toothless as they are at the moment, they have very noble intentions that could do the world good.
but it would take quite a moderate president to make that happen i believe. the country has become so divided over this iraq war. sure there are many independents, such as myself, but not nearly the amount as there are republicans, and certainly not democrats.
of course another option would be for another world power to lead the way with the UN. of course the problem being that most other world powers want nothing to do with us, and the UN is such a large part the US right now. time will tell.
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