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- From: gary@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand)
- Subject: More UN (was Re: Iraq renews threats against Kuwait)
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:47:36 GMT
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- Are you ever going to get your own account?
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- f > "Frank" (Robin Collins)
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- f > [I]f the UN is to be a "civilized body", then perhaps it should first be
- f > democratic, in terms of national representation (if not population
- f > representation). How can one state on the Security Council over-rule the
- f > views of 150+ in the General Assembly and the SC still be civilized?
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- Oh, I don't know, perhaps the same principle that allows one individual to
- overrule the desires of a lynch mob. It's called individual rights. Now,
- it doesn't generally apply to whole nations, but I have no problem at all
- with one state having the power to override the wishes of many others.
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- f > I do insist on democracy at the UN and have seen very little of it. Do
- f > you fear abolishing the veto?
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- No, I'd rather the UN go away entirely. Proto-governments are almost as
- bad as governments.
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