OPINION:
Jed Babbin proposes that we disentangle ourselves from the “anti-democratic, do-nothing plutocrats” in the United Nations (“Get the U.S. out of the useless U.N.,” Web, Sept. 29). Surely he knows that the Democrats would never allow such a thing.
Oh, wait, President Clinton and his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, came to the same conclusion. Albright, along with Poland, created the Community of Democracies, which still exists.
However, it never achieved the status as an alternative to the United Nations that Albright had hoped.
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Sadly, the United Nations as a political organization — the General Assembly and the Security Council — is a joke. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is a cruel joke.
Although the World Health Organization has also become politicized, many of the specialized agencies are effective and, really, essential: food, air travel, shipping, mail, weather, tourism, culture, etc.
Yet today’s Democrats/socialists have moved far to the left of Mr. Clinton, who in 1996 declared that “the era of big government is over.”
PETER F. SCHAEFER
Washington
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