Should the United States part with the United Nations?

[apples and oranges]

I notice a lot of people think we should have stayed out of this UN conflict. Does that mean we should leave the UN?

[RegieRocker]

1. What good would that do?

[MikeW]

2. If we do they'll close their doors we fund more of the UN than any other country

22 % operating budget

27 % peacekeeping budget

[quinnox]

3. No, the UN already does whatever the US tells it to do

So its a good cover to use for anything the US wants to do and act as if the world is behind it 100%.

[MineralMan]

4. Well, that's one of the right-wingers' memes.

Do you want to join them in it?

[DURHAM D]

5. I know, right - I think Senator Jesse Helms has risen from his grave.

[Iterate]

6. Damn that Eleanor Roosevelt, what could she have been thinking?

Better to turn the clock back to 1914, because it worked so well the first time.

[countingbluecars]

7. That is John Bolton's

wet dream.

[marmar]

8. Some say......

:eyes:

[Exilednight]

9. No. The US needs to allow other nations to play a larger role in UN

affairs. We use the UN as our personal rubber stamp and blackmail anyone who gets in our way. If given a true and equal voice, China and Russia would probably have vetoed the resolution.

[fittosurvive]

10. The real question is who should decide the matter of whether the US initiates a state of war

against another sovereign nation that has not attacked us.

Should we authorize the UN to decide which issues justify the sacrifice of our sons and daughters?

Or should we abide by the Constitution which calls for the American People's representatives to make this decision?

There is only one rational choice.

[MH1]

11. Huh?

we simply could have abstained and said we wouldn't support it.

Do you think the UN is only about direct conflict intervention?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, stayed out of the conflict.

And, a whole flock of "lesser" nations. Should they part with the UN?