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The fact that the UN is "what we have right now" is part of my point. As long as it's there, nothing else will replace it, and it needs replacing. It's corrupt, ineffective and wasteful at best, downright dangerous and immoral at worst. Until there are many more critics dissing the organization day in and day out, nothing at all will happen, and I'm not one bit hopeful that even global criticism could change the organization now.
The 2.3 bill bill the US owes will vanish overnight if it ever is paid, and the world will be not one bit better for it.
I live in a developing nation and know first-hand exactly how the UN functions 'in the field" ... even low-level employees making huge salaries with benefits that make the local's eyes boggle, the PhDs with more than generous pay packets AND the perfect opportunity to SELL much of their work back to the UN, and so on and so on.
Part of the function of the UN...what the countries pay the money for... is to take the flack for tragedies like Rwanda. Blaming the powers that make up the organization just lets the organization off the hook.
I can't even think about Darfur and the UN. My head explodes every time I do. (Messy!)
One item I found interesting the other day...
the UN is now advocating the use of DDT in Africa for malaria prevention. This is after 30 years of them working on the problem... WHO and such. Thirty years and millions of dollars later and they haven't come up with anything, so it's back to poison square one.
Typical. Just typical.
By the way, I see you're adopting from SA. Cool. I live very near there...well, near in Indian Ocean terms--anything withing a 6 hour flight! ... and know many folks there.
I would be very interested to hear about your process, as I understand it is not a simple program to negotiate.
Been nice debating with you...
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