Jokers to the Right.com has the goods on Ambassador Bolton's speech at U of D. I would have like to have attended. It's a rare opportunity to get a speaker of that caliber around these parts. The summary makes me glad we have someone like Bolton in the position he's in. He recognizes that the UN has major problems and is in need of radical reform if it is to survive.

Personally, I don't want it to survive in its current form. I would rather see it destroyed and rebuilt as a League of Democratic Nations. Create conditions for entry like election monitoring and transparency for admittance.

The US, UK, Australia, Canada, Austria, Germany, France, India, Japan, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg, and Andorra come to mind as easy entrants. That's a very good start. Make it a place for diplomacy. Any other actions would have to be by coalition agreement. No standing peacekeeping force or other standing agencies that involve transfer of funds. It would need to avoid the Oil For Food scandal repeating itself. Transparency for any such actions would have to be expressly spelled out in the Charter. Any violators (that means us too) would be suspended.

I don't have the whole idea thought out but I'd like to see some motion in that direction.

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Anonymous said…
France? Do we have to have France? Let's not forget France was a major player in the Oil for Food scandal and then became self-righteous toward US!

Long ago, they helped us once... And we've been paying ever since.

Poor, poor Charles Martel!
8:36 PM
The Last Ephor said…
Indeed. Your point is well taken. However, this is a place for jaw-jaw, not war-war so the French can't do too much damage.
8:54 AM
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