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dfwgator:

--- Quote from: EC on December 24, 2016, 08:58:42 pm ---With respect, you've not exactly thought that through.

The UN will not cease to exist simply because the USA withdraws. What it will have, however, is much greater freedom of action, since one of the only 7 nations who can unilaterally block UN action will no longer have a say in what happens.

If a beast exists, it's better to be the one holding the leash, right?

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The US not joining The League of Nations ultimately doomed them.   The UN would suffer the same fate if we pulled out.

bigheadfred:

--- Quote from: dfwgator on January 04, 2017, 06:38:25 am ---The US not joining The League of Nations ultimately doomed them.   The UN would suffer the same fate if we pulled out.

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I agree.

LateForLunch:

--- Quote from: bigheadfred on January 06, 2017, 01:29:15 am ---I agree.

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So do I. With all due respect (and that is mostly great) to those who voiced a different opinion on this thread, there is a lot of evidence that if the USA pulled all U.N. funding or greatly reduced it and instead gave aid directly to nations that needed it, all that would happen would be that the U.N. would become virtually bankrupt (since the US supplies most of the U.N. funding by a large margin) and those government which receive aid could be held accountable for any anti-US policies or rhetoric directly instead of being able to take freely from U.S. tax payers and at the same time attack us and work against us and with those who would like to weaken or destroy us.

The little matter of funding is a small detail that some on this thread seem to have overlooked and (forgive me) not thought through.The title poster's position is entirely, fully well-thought through. 

Defunding the U.N. would be worth considering seriously. The anti-US factions in the world must be brought to heel and made to understand that they need us far more than we need any of them, either individually or collectively.

In light of the long history of horrible corruption, waste, destructiveness and wickedness promulgated directly and indirectly by the Untied (sic) Nations, a good case could be made for simply pulling the plug.

Wingnut:
Lets keep the UN. Tear down this building Mr. Trump.   They can Telecommute from their own countries and we can give them each a PO Box at the UPS store.

bigheadfred:

--- Quote from: Wingnut on January 06, 2017, 04:15:01 pm ---Lets keep the UN. Tear down this building Mr. Trump.   They can Telecommute from their own countries and we can give them each a PO Box at the UPS store.

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I like it. Trade out their UNion lunch box for a PO box and see if brown really can do for themselves.

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