{"id":81723,"date":"2018-09-10T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81723"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T19:15:00","slug":"nice-idea-woodrow-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81723","title":{"rendered":"Nice idea, Woodrow, but…."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The UN was supposed to be a place where nations could settle their differences in a peaceful way. Unless I misunderstood the idea behind it, the UN was not meant to be a place of appeasement, which is what it has turned out to be.<\/p>\n

Except for the post-9\/11\/01 resolution mentioned below, nothing has been done to contain or even acknowledge terrorism by that organization. NATO has been a more useful alliance. Perhaps it’s time Woodrow Wilson’s bright idea, which was originally the League of Nations, was given its walking papers and disbanded. There is no real evidence that it has done anything other than cost the more affluent countries like the USA and USSR\/Russia and China funding that could have gone into other things.<\/p>\n

It was not the UN that resolved the North\/South Korea issue. It was an American president who was bold enough to take the bit in his teeth and move forward with ‘do this or else’ approach.<\/p>\n

The UN\u2019s Security Council passed a resolution condemning the 9-11-2001 attacks on New York City, Washington, DC, and the Shanksville, PA, crash. \u00a0https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2001\/SC7143.doc.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Nice words, but has anything stopped terrorism since then? \u00a0No. In fact, it has become worse than it was, with the constant ongoing war in the Middle East, which has not ceased since the defeat of Sennacherib.<\/p>\n

Nor has the problem dissipated with Angela Merkel\u2019s idiotic flooding Europe with so-called refugees who have proven themselves to be more of a problem than anything else, and a costly one, at that.. They have cost Europeans enormously in taxes, security and flagrant criminal activities that would get anyone else thrown into jail. The malignant refusal to acknowledge that these people are criminals from the get-go indicates an unwillingness to face the fact that the whole idea of \u201copen borders\u201d and \u201cone world\u201d is a denial of reality.<\/p>\n

There is, in fact, no real evidence that the UN has done anything except become a costly club that seemed like a good idea at the time, but has proven to be a waste of resources and time. NATO has been more effective.<\/p>\n

What has the UN done to help the people of Venezuela living in grinding poverty under Maduro\u2019s regime? When was the UN ever willing to go in to Cambodia to stop Pol Pot\u2019s rampage, or to up-stakes and go into Kuwait to help the Kuwaitis stop Saddam Hussein\u2019s confiscation of their tiny country? What did the UN do about the 32,000,000 people who starved to death under Mao Tse-Tung\u2019s dingdong approach to agriculture?<\/p>\n

What, in fact, has the UN done besides occupy real estate in New York City and let its diplomats get away with offenses for which the rest of us would be facing some hefty fines?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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