----- Original Message ----- From: "J.D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:20 PM Subject: Re: The UN
> Jeroen wrote: > Come on now! While most of the world gives credibility > to the UN, you claim > as Absolute Truth that the UN is a discredited body. > If you are so > intelligent and so intellectually superior to the rest > of the world that > you can make such a statement of Absolute Truth (thus > implying that > hundreds of thousands of politicians and diplomats > worldwide are all > wrong), surely you should have no problem whatsoever > figuring out what I mean! > ************************************* > > O.k., let's try the parphrase trick. John, let me ask you a question of clarification. I see the UN as a useful, but flawed institution. It is far better to have a world with a flawed UN than no UN. Yet, I agree that one cannot rely on the UN to always do what is necessary. Is that consistant with your understanding of discredited? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
