Cal Thomas: Finding use for a ‘useless’ U.N.

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Finding use for a ‘useless’ U.N.
Trump exhorts the world body to oppose ‘the forces of destruction’
By Cal Thomas - - Wednesday, September 20, 2017

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

While campaigning for the presidency, Donald Trump more than once referred to the United Nations as a “useless” organization and “not a friend of democracy.”

In his speech Tuesday to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, he apparently has discovered the often dysfunctional body can be useful, if it adopts the reforms he is proposing and accepts an agenda that includes uniting to stop North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons and missiles to strike at U.S and other targets.

This may have been President Trump’s finest speech as president. Written by Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s senior policy adviser, it was clear about the president’s objectives and concise about how he and any nations that wish to join him might hope to achieve them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could barely stay in his seat. He said of the president’s address: “In over 30 years in my experience with the U.N., I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech. ...

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