I'm of 2 minds here. Mind one: We should fix some of our own issues before sending troops and cash to other places. Trust in the UN to provide for the children of Iraq under Sadam. Trust in the UN to provide for the children of Sudan under the Arab gangs. Trust in the UN to halt Iran's quest for a nuke and a long range launch platform. Stop funnling our money into the UN as it's needed here. Trust in the EU to handle trade problems. Trust that others will handle the problems. Mind two: All of the above is great except that the UN is a farse, the EU is out to help France and Germany followed by europe (in that order) and most people just don't care about the human rights abuse of others. If we don't say/do something, no one will. Look at Sudan (again) and tell me that the UN did anything before we brought it up. Tell me that anything is being done now. And why not? Because all resolutions on stopping the genocide there (and it truly is) is being blocked by other countries for their own interests, not the interests of the innocent.
Yes, we have to take care of our own and we REALLY have to, but we can't ignore the world. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tangorre, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:17 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Dying for the United Nations > > How much longer are we going to let the people in our own country > suffer. WE HAVE OUR OWN problems we can spend more time and > money on and > stop trying to police the world. Last time I checked gas, healthcare, > education costs, etc were all WAY TOO HIGH. What about all > the homeless > people and people with AIDS and such... How do you think they feel > knowing our own country spends more money on other countries affairs > than its own? Lets get right to the point; who is going to work on the > problems in our country before we continue to ask our soldiers to die > for someone and something else. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132096 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
