UN to go into the nuke business?
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier thinks that the UN should get into the uranium-enrichment business "to stop countries feeling the need to build their own installations," and to provide international control.
To which I can only say "oil for food."
The UN is the last political organization I'd trust with nuclear materials....seriously, below Iran and North Korea. At least with them, you know what you're getting, and they aren't hiding behind idealistic words. With the corrupt UN, we won't know what's going out the back door. And if the UN is enriching uranium, what's to stop the UN for developing its own bomb sub-rosa? could such a project be done off the books, with the UN's budget? Or financed by illicit uranium sales? What happens when every tin-horn dictator decides he's had enough of America, and the UN votes for America to do something "or else", and we find out what "or else" is? These are the folks whose soldiers can't be trusted with a rifle and a penis at the same time, and we're going to let them have fissionable material?!
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Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: September 19, 2006 12:08 AM
You're also missing the next obvious step in this line of thought, which would be the demand that all nuclear energy must be controlled by the UN and anyone with nuclear weapons must hand them over to the UN....
I would suggest that perhaps we help this project along by delivering a nuclear bomb directly to the UN, except there are a few thing in NYC I'd prefer to keep.
Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: September 19, 2006 11:28 AM
Can't we just invade the place and ship all the "diplomats" to Gitmo?
Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: September 19, 2006 05:52 PM
"Can't we just invade the place and ship all the "diplomats" to Gitmo?"
Now, really. don't the Marines at Gitmo have enough hardships to deal with already?
BTW, did you hear about the brouhaha a few weeks ago, when people started to notice that Kofi Annan's name sounds a lot like the Hebrew for monkey? This was after he started to take Hizbollah's side in the war last month.