My own opinion is that the United Nations is a corrupt, anti-American, anti-Semitic organization of terrorist sympathizers. The way they are vilifying Jews is impossible. It’s been said that over the past 40 years, almost 30 percent of the resolutions passed by the UN Commission on Human Rights to condemn specific states have been directed at Israel. Watch Banned UN Speech: “Human Rights Nightmare”

It’s mind-boggling that the U.S. continues funding a group of nations (U.N.) who use those very same funds to destroy them. The United Nations is corrupt, ineffective, and dangerous! Pull America, Canada, and the West out immediately, and start a new organization with pro-West nations before it’s too late.

Actually, I think it is already too late.

March 1, Breitbart @ Drudge

“The US Defense Department announced Friday that it was awarding the deal for a fleet of in-flight refuelling craft to the Northrop Grumman/EADS team, in a huge coup for Boeing’s main rival Airbus.”

Since it will cost more getting Northrop Grumman/EADS to fill the contract, follow the money and explain who paid whom.

Excellent “discussion”, and more so, an insight into your intellect. Well done, sir, well done.

Money quote for the 45:27 :

“There is no accountability……. There is no way to purge the people responsible..”

As for Mark Leon Goldberg……. (nice bookshelf by the way), it was interesting to hear him split hairs for and against the UN when he was trying to make his point.

For instance, he argues that the UN as a whole is good, but the Security Council when voting for the US is bad. By the way, what does he have against Texas?

The UN is the biggest bureaucracy of bureaucracies run by and infested with bureaucrats.

Can Mr. Mark Leon Goldberg name one bureacracy, including local, state, federal, national, or global that is not filled with waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, and non-accountability?

Just one will do…….? (*crickets*)

I think Mr. Mark Leon Goldberg needs to do just a little research before the next “discussion”.

First, read the UN Charter then match that to what is happening today.

Second, follow up on why UN Peace Keeper continue to rape women and children, and still, nothing is done (goes back to the money question).

Third,

“I don’t want to get into the weeds to much”,

oh, really?

Finally, I believe Mr. Mark Leon Goldberg didn’t vote for the most recent guy that actually has called for reform in the UN.

Other than that, I think your next “discussion” should be with Ted Kennedy and water safety.

By the way, decent race, Congratulations Cousin Carl, and NASCAR fans do vote.

At the start of your debate with Mark, I was thinking you were too easy on him. But as the debate progressed, you were gaining and he was losing, in terms of facts and logic.

What distinguishes this from most of the left-right UN discussions is the debate was kept on a rational plane.

Good work, Mark. Good work, Captain Ed!

I must say that I am not used to seeing people drink out of Ball jars while on camera. You did the majority of the talking yet he kept swigging from the jar! It was a distraction for me..

If there’s front we conservatives can undoubedly win against the new left, the emotional bomb throwers, it’s the rational/intellectual side of the debate. They may still kill us overall with Orwellian/emotional discourse, but the rational/intellectual part of debate is our strength.

Yes, we’re all eager to see the cars going around in circles.

What’s wrong with that, hippy?

I didn’t watch the entire thing. I confess. Those discussions tend to make me fall asleep.

Here’s my take on the U.N. thing, okay?

We’ve been in the U.N. for so long now, if we pulled out, it would cause us some serious problems, diplomatically, I mean.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not fan of the U.N., but we’re too far into it now. Pulling out, in the short term would be good, but in the LOOOOONG run, it would hurt us.

Hopefully, you understand what I mean.

-WFC

Lt. Col. Allen West, African American Republican candidate for Congress in South Florida. He’s the one who caused a whirlwind of controversy back in 2004 for tough interrogation techniqes on an Al Qaeda suspect. Shot over his head to get intel to save his men.

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Yes, we’re all eager to see the cars going around in circles.

Originally Posted by Fuquier
Morrissey going on and on about accountability and oversight is surreal. Talk about mental compartmentalization…

My thoughts exactly. It never fails to amaze me that the anti-UN side always trots out this talking point when so many of them simultaneously fetishize the theory of the unitary executive, support the abuse of signing statements and warrantless wiretapping, and chortle when Bush Administration officials refuse to respond to Congressional requests and subpoenas.

I was also struck several times during the diavlog by another inconsistency: half the time, the UN is feared by those on the right for its ominous tendencies to impose world government and to limit the US from acting in its own interests; in the next breath, the UN is belittled for being unable to accomplish anything.

Here’s another one: why are the UN peacekeeping troops blamed en masse for a dozen individuals’ crimes, while the torturers at Abu Ghraib are dismissed as “a few bad apples?”

And another: why do we always hear about how terrible it is that the UN contains diplomats from non-democratic countries, but never hear complaints about the US being in bed with, say, Saudi Arabia?

I am not able to watch it yet but this comment is endemic in the lefts thinking in this argument. This argument has no consistency and basic fact that the UN exists to create peace by transferring power and authority to the rest of the world. Cut the legs out from underneath the US and Israel and the all will be right in the world.

So when the UN makes countries like Iran and Lybia heads of the human rights commissions, they tend to lose credibility about their true mandate and if the UN heads happen to line their pockets with the worlds currency. So much for the better.

I think that’s only the second blogginghead I’ve watched, the first was when Althouse went off on someone.

I think you took the show, Ed, but you had a tendency to do most of the talking/interrupting (maybe that is a function of you being the guest? I don’t know blogginheads format so..)

Mark seems to hold too dearly to the idealism of the U.N. and not enough to the actual practice. Maybe it can be as useful as he bleives it to be, but I haven’t seen such evidence (nor did he provide any other then the incursion of a slum town in Haiti.) He never properly address your concern that there is no accountability in the U.N. which I beleive was your major critique.

To close, Mark Steyn has a great quote on this. It goes something like “If you mix 3/4 of a quart of ice cream with 1/4 a quart of dog excrement, the resulting concoction will inevitably end up tasting more like the latter than the former.” This is true of dog poo and ice cream, and it is also true of democracies and dictatorships. I shudder to think what the concoton taste like when the amounts are reverse, as in the U.N.

what gives???

:–)

Bingo. And his point about “right to self-defense” is less relevant in light of a world where flattening technological hierarchies in WMD can make self defense necessarily preemptive.