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Originally posted by Agamemnon@Feb 6 2005, 03:59 PM
He DOES? I thought I found a few 'sweeping generalizatins', but I suppose you have to dig for them... though they seemed obvious.
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I think you misunderstood my post, although it was written at 3 in the morning or so after returning from the bar so the clarity may have been less than I wished. I was simply commenting on the writer, not the specific article. Usually when faced with a right-wing columnist's work I can hardly manage to trudge through all the abusrdity. I just found this article readable and it even had a few good points.
Regarding corruption in the UN, I am somewhat biased because I've been waiting for the it to become a much more effective entity, in the sense that it would help keep order and uphold its charter. The volunteer work and financial aid that the UN provides is certainly commendable, even in spite of the "skimming". I am not for 'disbanding the UN' in any way, I just wish it was more effective.
To comment on the situation in Iraq, the success of the election is a positive. That's all the credit I've ever managed to give the US administration throughout their ill-concieved invasion. Stability is still far away and there is a lot more work to do but if they can manage to leave Iraq as an independant democratic country then good for them. Although you would have to be truly ignorant to believe that bringing democracy was the reason they went there, it doesn't mean that something good can't come from this war, God knows that there have been enough bad things come from it.