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Title: Obama has the solution: Major address-U.S. should strengthen U.N.
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The Politco
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49319.html
Published: Feb 11, 2011
Author: MIKE ALLEN & JAKE SHERMAN
Post Date: 2011-02-11 10:50:00 by Happy Quanzaa
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Comments: 6
Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, will argue in a major address Friday evening that the U.S. should “strengthen” — not “starve” — the world body. The address is the first in a series of speeches — to continue this spring – making the case to the American people about why the U.N. matters to national security, and how it is being improved. House Republicans failed this week in trying to get $180 million in overpaid dues back from the United Nations. The effort was widely panned by New Yorkers in Congress as damaging to security. The ambassador will be speaking to the World Affairs Council of Oregon, in Portland. "The U.N. provides a real return on our tax dollars by bringing 192 countries together to share the cost of providing stability, vital aid, and hope in the world’s most broken places,” Rice says in prepared remarks. “Because of the U.N., the world doesn’t look to America to solve every problem alone. … We’re far better off working to strengthen the U.N. than trying to starve it—and then having to choose between filling the void ourselves, or leaving real threats untended.”
Susan Rice is set to deliver a major address. | AP Photo
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#5. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
What does the U.N. actually do other than the occasional "peace keeping" mission in some third world hell hole??? They are impervious to any reform. The composition of the "Security Council" is a WWII relic that makes no sense at all today because it excludes the third and forth largest economies on earth (Japan and Germany) as well as the most populous country on earth (India). Corruption is rampant. The U.S. shoulders a disproportion share of the cost as measured either by population or GDP. Unless serious reforms are made, we pull should pull out and tell them to move their headquarters elsewhere.
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