# Nuke the UN **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 25, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360 "2007-06-25T17:57:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/21 "2007-06-26T15:18:18Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] If there’s one SDMB thread an FBI agent has opened, this is the one. And he/she is still checking it periodically . . . just to be sure. [/QUOTE] :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/22 "2007-06-26T15:26:41Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] Since when has the UN been a moral authority? [/QUOTE] Well, if the Secretary General points the finger and goes “that’s totally wrong and morally indefensible”, or a General Assembly resolution to the same effect is passed, it’s a pretty good sign that a whole bunch of people who hate each other can all agree that you suck. But generally the UN is a very useful source of internationally agreed facts, from e.g. the WHO, ILO, ISO, etc., rather than morals. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/23 "2007-06-26T15:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] …like the G7. Until, that is, they had a brain fart and invited Russia in, at which point it too became a craptastic talking-shop. [/QUOTE] Especially annoying because the G7 was an economic organization. It was supposed to be the seven largest economies in the world. Now it’s the two largest economies, plus the third through eighth largest economies, plus another country with lots of nuclear weapons. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/24 "2007-06-26T16:23:04Z")
If Nelson Muntz posted to the SDMB… “Gotta nuke somethin’!” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/25 "2007-06-26T16:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] Nuking the UN over this is like nuking your neighbourhood association because all of your neigbours are assholes. [/QUOTE] You say this like it’s a bad thing. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/26 "2007-06-26T20:32:20Z")
Um, I live about eight blocks from the U.N. Couldja maybe just write a stern letter of disapproval? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/27 "2007-06-26T21:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] If there’s one SDMB thread an FBI agent has opened, this is the one. And he/she is still checking it periodically . . . just to be sure. [/QUOTE] Can _I_ say it? Nuke the UN! (Now, off to put some cookies out for the Shin Bet). ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/28 "2007-06-26T21:45:40Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Can _I_ say it? Nuke the UN! [/QUOTE] I bet there are more Jews within the Blast Radius of the UN than if we nuked Tel Aviv. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/29 "2007-06-26T21:57:47Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] I bet there are more Jews within the Blast Radius of the UN than if we nuked Tel Aviv. [/QUOTE] That’s okay, we’ll spread the word and they’ll all be out of town that day. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/30 "2007-06-26T22:04:05Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] That’s okay, we’ll spread the word and they’ll all be out of town that day. [/QUOTE] Good, I know lots of Jews, if I see them all go out of town on the same day I’ll know when to get. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360/31 "2007-06-26T22:46:52Z")
[QUOTE=mswas] I bet there are more Jews within the Blast Radius of the UN than if we nuked Tel Aviv. [/QUOTE] two birds, one stone, and all that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nuke-the-un/409360.md?page=1)