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How About Sanctions on the UN?

August 31, 2006 - 10:57 am - by Claudia Rosett
Orah
2006-08-31 19:50:50

I want to commend you on this post on Sanctions on the UN. Let’s go further: How about disbanding the UN entirely. It is no better than the League of Nations was before World War II with its incapability of preventing terrorist attacks worldwide and in thwarting rogue states such as Syria and Iran from funding and arming terrorist groups or verbally threatening the annihilation of another member state of the UN. I would venture to say that the UN is even worse, some of its members being dictatorships who do not have the same values and goals as do democracies. In short, the interests of the United States are not always that of the United Nations. In reading your op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal, where you indicate that the United States should seriously consider military action towards Iran, a fascinating thought came to mind. Especially because the US will not have much luck in getting a coalition together towards this end, wouldn’t it be interesting if Israel and the United States would ‘coalesce’ militarily to teach Iran a lesson…