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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The United Nations
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 11:40:21 EST
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 >From: mck@ratex.UUCP (Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan)
 >... I hope that everyone realizes that the over-
 >whelming majority of [U.N.] members are authoritarian or totalitarian regimes (the
 >distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian seems, lately, to depend
 >on who's talking about whose puppets).  I don't see that we have much to
 >say to these people, and it's ludicrous to subsidize their activities.

(a) There is no difference between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.
    It is an invention of Jeanne Kirkpatrick to justify her support for
    some tyrants and her denunciation of others.  Torture is torture.

(b) Do you believe there is a military solution for the world's problems?
    If not, then you either believe there is no solution (a pretty uninspired
    position) or you believe in a political solution.  The U.N. is the
    world's political forum.  We may not like all the other nations of the
    world, but we have to live with them (unless you believe in a military
    solution).  The U.N. represents our attempt to live with them.  I think
    the U.S. can well afford the money we put into it.  It's a very small
    fraction of the money we invest in the military "solution."

Mike Kelly