I’m guessing Ahmedinejad.
I’ve got a sensible proposal-move the whole mess back to Switzerland-they even have the old League of Nations Building, empty and ready. We could tear down the UN, and convert the lot (Donald Trump?) into nice condos-and the new Yorkers can do without third-world diplomats/criminals infesting the streets of NYC!
Put em either in Death Valley or somewhere in the deep south. Should be fun, especially during the summer. If some other country has a hankering to host the UN (I hear Venezuela wants too) then I say…knock yourselves out. I see no over riding reason the UN has to be here in the states. We are the evil empire and all that after all, smell of brimstone and flames of hell, blah blah blah…wouldn’t want to contaminate their purity or anything.
-XT
“One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble”
Any country which has a military coup and remains “buisness as usual” might actually be a good idea for UN headquaters
-Bippy who is currently very impressed with the Thai nation from what I’ve been able to read on the news.
Got to say I quite like the idea of putting them somewhere that they can examine problems close up on a day to day basis and rotating.
I’d suggest adding to Darfur:-
North Korea, Iran, and France.
France? That’s just cruel.
That diplomat gang will leave a trail of hooKers and nose canfy a mile wide.
Come visit, my international friends!
I agree, move them to France. At least that way they don’t need to meet in a place which promotes such third world policies such as illegal imprisonment and torture…
Sorry, but your collective opinions serve only to reinforce the view that Americans couldn’t give a stuff about anybody else’s perspectives but their own.
To highlight two of the more drearily obvious flaws:
- You’ll note the US is on AI’s human rights abuse list too, none too surprisingly
- That whole France stereotype thing? Deeply passé and about as funny as stereotyping Americans as fat, pig-ignorant, god bothering hicks.
Now considering all the easy opportunities that exist for criticising the UN (blatant corruption; hideous waste of resources, nepotism, terrible choice of beret colour for peace-keeping forces) I really do feel you should try a bit harder in the future.
You Brits and your wacky sense of humor!
I only wish I was exhibiting it in this case…
I wonder if there are any structures left from the Japanese internment and German POW camps in Southern Arkansas. They were along a railroad near the Mississippi in the Southeastern part of the state. They allegedy tortured Germans who wouldn’t work by standing them w/o a shirt in front of truck lights at night and letting the mosquitoes have at them.
But I digress. I’m sure they could meet in some of those buildings.
Stop that!
- We all know, we do live here after all.
- You guys haven’t really shown much respect for the French for the past several hundred years
- See this for our opinions of other countries
- Chill out, it’s Friday
- Aren’t there a couple of EU members that have allowed our secret prisons? Yeah, that’s it… it’s not our fault, they let us set up our facilities!
- There is no number six
- The French eat stinky cheese!
- “Caring about other people” and “respecting the UN” are not the same. I wish it was an organization that we could be proud to host, but some of us aren’t any more impressed with them than we are with our current government.
Do you have a cite for that. It predates the current contraventions of the Geneva Conventions by the US by many decades.
I found that humorous, but the other one certainly isn’t:
Here is the link.
I heard from an American POW and cannot cite that when his group was rescued at the Battle of the Bulge, some were given machine guns and killed a particularly cruel guard.
As do we all.
I hate to break it to you, but Brits also eat stinky cheese Stinking Bishop amongst them
Or try living in L.A., where we mostly have no subway and transportation in the city grinds to a halt when somebody wants to march down Wilshire Boulevard to protest something or other.