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After All That Spin And Whitewash, Uncle Jimbo, Can You Tell Us How You Really Feel About the UN?

Posted on | February 10, 2010 | 14 Comments

by Smitty

For those in need of a little something to de-crapify the atmosphere, I give you Uncle Jim on the UN.

My position is that the UN is measurable better than no UN, albeit not by much.

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14 Responses to “After All That Spin And Whitewash, Uncle Jimbo, Can You Tell Us How You Really Feel About the UN?”

  1. Dandapani
    February 10th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

    UN is a waste or American time and American money. It’s nothing but a cesspool of 3rd world dictators enriching themselves even more off the guilt from 1st world countries. If the UN was such as great idea, why doesn’t some other country sponsor it? France, perhaps. Get US out of the UN and get the UN out of US!

  2. Dandapani
    February 10th, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

    s/or/of/

  3. Dandapani
    February 10th, 2010 @ 3:50 pm

    UN is a waste or American time and American money. It’s nothing but a cesspool of 3rd world dictators enriching themselves even more off the guilt from 1st world countries. If the UN was such as great idea, why doesn’t some other country sponsor it? France, perhaps. Get US out of the UN and get the UN out of US!

  4. Dandapani
    February 10th, 2010 @ 3:50 pm

    s/or/of/

  5. jefferson101
    February 10th, 2010 @ 10:32 pm

    Back in my wasted youth, I went down to the local John Birch Society bookstore and bought stuff occasionally.

    Other that their books, which were mostly a waste, I did get two things that I would like more of.

    They had stickers. One of them said “This is a Republic, not a Democracy. Let’s keep it that way.”

    The other one said “Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.”

    I’ve gone mainstream in a whole lot of ways since then, and gave up on being a Bircher and then on being a (Large “L”) Libertarian by the time I was 30.

    But I’ve still not found any reason to disavow the sentiments expressed by either of those stickers. I ought to get some more of both made up!

  6. jefferson101
    February 10th, 2010 @ 5:32 pm

    Back in my wasted youth, I went down to the local John Birch Society bookstore and bought stuff occasionally.

    Other that their books, which were mostly a waste, I did get two things that I would like more of.

    They had stickers. One of them said “This is a Republic, not a Democracy. Let’s keep it that way.”

    The other one said “Get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.”

    I’ve gone mainstream in a whole lot of ways since then, and gave up on being a Bircher and then on being a (Large “L”) Libertarian by the time I was 30.

    But I’ve still not found any reason to disavow the sentiments expressed by either of those stickers. I ought to get some more of both made up!

  7. wombat-socho
    February 10th, 2010 @ 11:51 pm

    Smitty, do you mean that comparison in the same way that bad sex is better than no sex, or in some other way that my Percocet-soaked brain doesn’t comprehend at the moment?

  8. wombat-socho
    February 10th, 2010 @ 6:51 pm

    Smitty, do you mean that comparison in the same way that bad sex is better than no sex, or in some other way that my Percocet-soaked brain doesn’t comprehend at the moment?

  9. smitty
    February 11th, 2010 @ 12:03 am

    @wombat-socho,
    To take the sexual tack, sure. We need to carry forward the human race. That ends up being a numbers game.
    Also, the interface for communication has to exist, even if the UN subtracts a lot of value. Axing the UN entirely would, I’m arguing, be worse. [waves hands]

  10. smitty
    February 10th, 2010 @ 7:03 pm

    @wombat-socho,
    To take the sexual tack, sure. We need to carry forward the human race. That ends up being a numbers game.
    Also, the interface for communication has to exist, even if the UN subtracts a lot of value. Axing the UN entirely would, I’m arguing, be worse. [waves hands]

  11. jefferson101
    February 11th, 2010 @ 1:28 am

    Smitty, my Boudreaux:

    If you can tell me how perpetuating a gang of thieves and sex criminals enables me to perpetuate my genes, I’m open to hear it.

    But my family is more likely to be using Blue Helmets as targets at the shooting range than anything else, and beyond that we have little use for bureaucrats, sex criminals, and extortionists. And that’s what the U.N. is, in it’s current form.

    Show me that it’s done much of anything to save anyone, and I may change my mind, but they facilitate the killers, not the victims. And we need that for what reason?

    And we pay for it for what reason?

    I’m in Bob Dylan Mode. “I’m going back to New York City. I do believe I’ve had enough.”

  12. jefferson101
    February 10th, 2010 @ 8:28 pm

    Smitty, my Boudreaux:

    If you can tell me how perpetuating a gang of thieves and sex criminals enables me to perpetuate my genes, I’m open to hear it.

    But my family is more likely to be using Blue Helmets as targets at the shooting range than anything else, and beyond that we have little use for bureaucrats, sex criminals, and extortionists. And that’s what the U.N. is, in it’s current form.

    Show me that it’s done much of anything to save anyone, and I may change my mind, but they facilitate the killers, not the victims. And we need that for what reason?

    And we pay for it for what reason?

    I’m in Bob Dylan Mode. “I’m going back to New York City. I do believe I’ve had enough.”

  13. smitty
    February 11th, 2010 @ 2:00 am

    I’m not saying that the organization couldn’t benefit from a napalm enema, just that not existing at all would be, IMO, a measurably worse situation.

    As with Haiti relief, we’re sort of stuck; we can’t not do the UN, on some level.

  14. smitty
    February 10th, 2010 @ 9:00 pm

    I’m not saying that the organization couldn’t benefit from a napalm enema, just that not existing at all would be, IMO, a measurably worse situation.

    As with Haiti relief, we’re sort of stuck; we can’t not do the UN, on some level.