US has votes in toothless, meaningless UN

Contributed by: filbert Sunday, July 09 2006 @ 09:27 AM CST

(Headline mine) . . . Reuters report via Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes it has the votes in the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against North Korea's nuclear missile program, a top U.S. official said on Sunday.

"We think we've got the votes to pass that," UnderSecretary of State Nicholas Burns said on NBC's "Meet the Press" television program.

Security Council members Russia and China have veto power and have opposed the resolution drafted by Japan. They could abstain, allowing the resolution to pass, but have so far not announced their intentions. A vote may come on Monday.

That's the UN's motto, by the way:  "Toothless.  Meaningless.  The UN."

We need to start over, perhaps with NATO as either the core or the model, for a real international organization composed only of actual liberal democracies, and let the UN stew in its own statist, racist, totalitarian juices, tossing them money every once in a while to keep the entertainment coming.  Those few UN-related non-governmental organizations that actually work should be moved to or replaced by analogous organizations run by the new entity.

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