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August 10, 2008 - 7:52 am - by Roger Kimball
njoriole
2008-08-12 12:26:26

TheRitz says that the UN “…should again be better equipped to deal with disputes among sovereign nations than the nations themselves.” That statement presumes that the UN was once “better equipped to deal with disputes..” REALLY? When was that magical time, Ritz? The UN has not, to my knowledge, EVER exhibited an ability to do anything other than pontificate and navel-gaze. In fact, UN deliberations are worse than nothing. As long as the life-long EUnich politicians and bureauocrats and third-world genocide-ocrats who make up the power base of that organization are talking, nothing meaningful is EVER done (probably the whole point of the exercise, in fact). “This European” TheRitz may well hope that Obama becomes the C-in-C, as do many such EU socialists, because he/she knows that Obama (and the far-left of the Democrat party he represents) is the more “European” of the two candidates. But the shocking news is: we don’t want to be like you, Ritz, nor do we want our government and its leaders to emulate your feckless, cradle-to-grave social-democratic governments that don’t seem to be able or willing to defend European civilization. As much as I can’t stand the ignorance and bile of EU opinion regarding America, I will still mourn when “Eurabia” becomes a reality. The bigger question is, does TheRitz even see it coming?