At 01:40 PM 6/23/01 +0200 Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
>> Do you think that the United Nations would have been founded without
>> Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and the United States?
>> Do you have any evidence whatsoever that another country acted as the
>> driving force behind the creation of the United Nations?
>
>Let's reverse that question then. Do you think that only the efforts of
the US are
>worth mentioning even if founding and maintaining this organisation is
more of a
>group accomplishment?
O.k., let me try this then.
What if I retract my statement that "the US founded the UN" and instead say:
"The United States conceptualized the United Nations, and took the lead in
bringing some 50 countries together in San Francisco to sign the U.N.
Charter and found the U.N."
Would you have a problem with that?
JDG
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We are products of the same history, reaching from Jerusalem and
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We share a civilization. - George W. Bush, Warsaw, 06/15/01
