Marilyn Shepherd if WE are the UN? Then how come WE are sitting back sniping and whining in onlineopinion.com.au rather then sitting down sitting back sniping and whining at The UN General Assembly in New York

Eet,

Another silly duffer (like Carl) who likes to believe that Israel deliberately put a “precision’ missile through an ambulance.

How do you explain why the Israelis would also deliberately waste one of these “precision” and very expensive missiles on a drilling rig on the back of a truck?

After all if, according to you, they can identify and destroy an ambulance at extreme distances, surely they would be able to do the same with a drilling rig – identify it as harmless and save the missile for a genuine target?

Leigh, for the record, I never said that Israel delibratley bombed that ambulance, deliberate or not its still a disgrace.

At least Boaz actually reads my posts, you obviously don't have the attention span.

Shorbe, no offence, mate, but we so sorely need a United Nations, an idea actually formulated by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant after the previously enlightenment struck Napoleon declared himself emperor.

In like manner, we could say that naive foolish America believes she is emperor of this world just because she has become unipolar, formerly sharing global power with the Soviets in the bi-polar makeup.

As a matter of fact, some social scientists are saying that the world maybe had been a bit less dangerous with a sharing of power. The probable advantage of course, at the time, was Bismarkian Realpolik or the necessity for both sides to preserve a balance of power. Certainly needed with both sides with the capacity to blow half the world to bits and poison the rest.

In short, however, it is believed the end of the US veto in the UN might help America gain a bit more global commonsense, but maybe not so much with the mob of mostly former oil executives running Pax Americana right now.

Carl,

“Yes the civilised world indeed Elena, especially bombing that ambulance, what a civilised act that was.”

That’s what you said, Carl. You called what I believe was an ‘accident’ an ‘act’, suggesting – to me at least – that you believed that it was deliberate.

If I am wrong and you believe that I have misunderstood what you meant, I apologise

To reform the UN we can start by getting rid of that dill Kofi Annan.Notice how he dwells on his carefully mouthed syllables to give himself time to finish sentences full of platitudes and impotence.George Bush is far more aware.

The concept of the UN will never work because in an over populated world, poor,corrupt,inept countries will always outnumber the more disciplined,hardworking ones and the masses will use their numbers to bring us unstuck.