At 14:20 21-10-2002 -0700, John Giorgis wrote:
I have always been opposed to veto power for *any* country because it gets in the way of the democratic process, so the answers to the above questions are "no" and "no".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. Do you believe the letting the Communist Dictatorship of the People's Republic of China veto decision is a "democratic principle?" Do you believe that the UN Security Council "veto power" is a democratic principle?
Yes. Of course, ideally any UN decision would be made by letting every citizen of every member country vote on the issue (using the "one man, one vote" principle). However, given that this is not doable, the principle of "one country, one vote" is the best alternative.Do you believe that the principle of "one country, one vote" is a democratic principle?
No. By rejecting the authority of the UN, the US is choosing a form of dictatorship ("the US and only the US decides") over what at least to a certain extent is a democracy.If you answered "no" to any of the above questions, then is not the United States upholding democratic principles by rejecting the authority of the non-democratic United Nations?
OK, I have answered your questions, now let's see what you figured out to be the meaning of what I initially wrote (see the top of this message).
Jeroen "Have it on my desk by 08:00 tomorrow" van Baardwijk
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