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"Undoubtedly, Blanco, you've got a point about the UN being outdated. It's fundamental concepts are sound, I feel - and I think that you and I would agree that a world government is just about the last thing we need on this planet. But the UN is hamstrung by both its inability to pay for itself due to a lack of capital and by its reliance on major players (namely the G8) to pony up the dough to help them enforce and establish law. When a country like the states endorses and respects the legitimacy of the UN (as they did in the early 1990s) the system works pretty good. But when the US chooses to disregard their commitments and obligations to the UN they're playing the role of the spoiled child who picks up their ball and goes home. If the USA would commit itself to attempting changes to the UN system to make it "updated", that would be nice. What would be even better is if the USA realized that its big-stick attitude makes it a target for marginalized groups - and heaven help the USA if it marginalizes the rest of the planet."


Why shouldn't the US have the right to make up their own minds? They ARE the biggest contributors to NATO AND the UN. The whole point of NATO was to stop communism, and for smaller, weaker countries to have the protection of the United States. Like Portugal would come over, and make a difference if Red Dawn actually happened.

Governments are like people, they look out for number one, and try to get and stay ahead. Whatever benefits now is what we look out for.