The United Nations
Christmahanikwanzikah
12-01-2007, 10:34
Just a thought: Is the UN another League of Nations, only longer lasting?
Rotovia-
12-01-2007, 10:36
No.
Think Harder.
Fassigen
12-01-2007, 10:37
Think Harder.
You ask too much of people on and in general.
Harlesburg
12-01-2007, 10:38
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Wilgrove
12-01-2007, 10:44
Just a thought: Is the UN another League of Nations, only longer lasting?
Eh pretty much, an organization that's basically just a place for nations to bitch and moan, and is about as effective as fairy dust. I heard the President of Iran and the President of N. Korea uses the UN Resolution as toilet paper.
Eh pretty much, an organization that's basically just a place for nations to bitch and moan, and is about as effective as fairy dust.
How about you actually go and inform yourself regarding what the UN actually does - for instance, the lives it saves through its humanitarian programmes? Or would reality clash too much with your silly, ignorant wish to just bash it?
the President of N. Korea
Considering that the official current President of the DPRK is a man who died in 1994... I doubt it.
No.
Think Harder.
Rotovia- said it best...
Lacadaemon
12-01-2007, 12:27
I'll tell what it doesn't do. It doesn't pay its fuking parking tickets. Or property tax either.
For the life of me, I have no idea why it sits on the most expensive real estate in the US. Why isn't it in kansas, where they could have all the damn parking they wanted? (And it's operating cost would be much lower, thus saving money that could be spent on other things, like vaccine).
I'll tell what it doesn't do. It doesn't pay its fuking parking tickets. Or property tax either.
For the life of me, I have no idea why it sits on the most expensive real estate in the US. Why isn't it in kansas, where they could have all the damn parking they wanted? (And it's operating cost would be much lower, thus saving money that could be spent on other things, like vaccine).
Because it was built as a symbol of peace or something? Because at the time it wasn't nearly as expensive in New York and they didn't think about how it would be sixty years in the future?
Lacadaemon
12-01-2007, 13:28
Because it was built as a symbol of peace or something? Because at the time it wasn't nearly as expensive in New York and they didn't think about how it would be sixty years in the future?
Nah, it was expensive real estate back then too. Post WWII, manhattan was a boom town. It wasn't until the late sixties/seventies it got shitty.
Anway, why couldn't they have the symbol of peace in kansas? I mean, they rigged the world currencies for next thirty years in the backwoods of new hampshire in 1946, so I don't see having a NYC address as essential.
(And maybe the security council and GA would get some bloody work done if there was less to distract them.)
Nah, it was expensive real estate back then too. Post WWII, manhattan was a boom town. It wasn't until the late sixties/seventies it got shitty.
Anway, why couldn't they have the symbol of peace in kansas? I mean, they rigged the world currencies for next thirty years in the backwoods of new hampshire in 1946, so I don't see having a NYC address as essential.
(And maybe the security council and GA would get some bloody work done if there was less to distract them.)
The US was the one who wanted them in New York...
Lacadaemon
12-01-2007, 14:24
The US was the one who wanted them in New York...
Actually, it was Robert Moses who wanted them in New York. It was part of his Moses Uber Alles plan for urban planning. I think the US was actually pretty ambivalent about the specific location; it certainly wasn't the only option.
The details of the whole thing are in Cairo's The Powerbroker