>All this talk about the UN being an imperialist organisation seems to
>ignore much of the history of how the UN was set up - largely by the
>winners of World War Two, who were determined, especially Roosevelt, to
>make sure that imperialism, would vanish from the world.
Excuse me? Where on earth does this bizarre statement come from? Roosevelt
WAS imperialist, born and bred. I can't believe you meant to write this on
our list. Just say it ain't so!
To this end the US
>interefered in Allied strategy, particularly in the Balkans, aquisced in
>the Stalinist occupation of Eastern Europe, and accepted the creation of an
>organisation that could be held hostage by any of the major powers who
>cared to exercise a veto in the security council.
Acquised? My god, you are serious! Maybe "Greece"might help you. If not,
"Italy". I can go on, if I must, but this is simply a perversion of history,
as Buchanan wants it. He has been going on about the Americans aquiescing to
Stalin in the Hitler-Stalin pact. Give me a break.
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>The UN has just as much power and authority as the nation states that are
>its constituent members allow it to have; rather than berating the UN for
>being imperialist or neo colonial, we should be berating the member states
>who are trying to use the UN as a vehicle for their (sometimes) imperialist
>and neo-colonial aims.
That hair is so thin I simply cannot split it.
Let us not forget that one of the reasons that the
>US has refused to pay its dues to the UN was the way that the UN was able
>to successfully reflect an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial agenda,
>especially in the 1960s. Does anyone remember the new international
>communications order?
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>Michael Booth
>Associate Lecturer
>Faculty of Communication
>University of Canberra Ph: 61 02 6201 2161 (w)
>61 02 6249 1716 (h)
>Canberra, ACT, 2601 Fax: 61 02 6201 5119
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