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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
As a general principle and as an institution as a whole, the U.N. is useful and worthy of respect . . .
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I think that the concept - the aspiration - of the UN is useful and worthy of respect. Nations should have an ever-present and always-open forum in which to communicate. But the UN hasn't done this well, and it has done too many other things that have been affirmatively bad, whether because a good idea was botched, or a bad impulse was followed.
It will never work as a world government. It will never be given power over the sovereignity of nations. And, without some drastic restructuring, it will never amount to more than a soapbox for countries, people, and ideas that would be ignored or ridiculed elsewhere.
Bolton would be absolutely perfect as our representative in that body.
