Reply #4: What makes you think the UN would ever WANT to help out

[lapfog_1]

in Iraq?

Last I heard, when they had a bunch of diplomats there, the "terrorists"
or "insurgents" or whatever blew the shit out of their HQ and killed
a number of them. Plus, it's not like the UN feels some obligation to
help the US out of any jam we might find ourselves in. I know that if
I was in the UN... and remembering the whole Powell presentations and
the idiot presidents speeches and the constant blathering by the right
wing politicos from the US about how useless the UN is, not to mention
the efforts that the US has undertaken to destroy the UN... uh... tell
me again why the UN should help out?

I agree that we are there... and it won't be pretty... but we should
just pack up and leave. Not just Iraq, but the whole middle east.
We will simply have to accelerate whatever plans we have (or don't
yet have) for energy replacement for ME oil. As for Israel, I have no
solution for that either. I don't think we should continue to support
them, except that not supporting them is also unthinkable. But I sure
don't like what they have become.