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I'm not a big fan of the UN and have seen how they work close up ... and it ain't pretty. But, lets be honest, we are happy to use the UN when it suits us so its a biy hypocritical to want to use it but not be willing to pay.
I'm not a big fan of the UN and have seen how they work close up ... and it ain't pretty. But, lets be honest, we are happy to use the UN when it suits us so its a biy hypocritical to want to use it but not be willing to pay.
How do we benefit in any way from the UN that we couldn't do more effectively without it?
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I'm not a big fan of the UN and have seen how they work close up ... and it ain't pretty. But, lets be honest, we are happy to use the UN when it suits us so its a biy hypocritical to want to use it but not be willing to pay.
It's usefulness, such as using the violation of UN resolutions as a lame excuse for unnecessary wars of choice, is far too expensive and we'd lose little by cutting our $$$ input and/or 'inviting' the UN to relocate to another country.
"A key House Republican is quickly pressing forward with her goals to scale back U.S. funding for the United Nations. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill that oversight would be a key function of the panel, particularly funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) that is 'a waste of taxpayer dollars.' I don't think that that's a pro-democracy group, it's a rogue's gallery, pariah states, they belong there because they don't want to be sanctioned."
The article also mentions a large percent of procurement contracts by the UN involve fraud and that UN peacekeeping operations are "plagued with numerous cases of abuse and sexual exploitation."
How effective is the UN? Where does it excel and where does it fail?
I think that their will be coninuing pressure to redcue the amout thatthe US actauly contributes. That is also what will happen to other international contributing really.
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The U.N. is a worthless and impotent organization.
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