From: "Gary Britt" 

Here Here !!!!

Instead of Rich quoting some Canadian Idiot's newspaper, here is a much
more realistic take on his vaunted U.N.

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20040921-085109-2944r.htm
Yesterday, addressing the den of jackals, thieves, petty dictators and
other international flotsam ” which goes by the name of the United Nations
General Assembly ” President Bush echoed the brave, necessary words of the
once Prince of Camelot (John Kennedy).

If you read the transcript of Bush's speech it was a beautiful bit of prose
worthy of speeces from President Kennedy, FDR, and Churchhill.

"We are determined to destroy terror networks wherever they
operate...We are determined to end the state sponsorship of terror...we are
determined to prevent proliferation and to enforce the demands of the
world...The work ahead is demanding. But these difficulties will not shake
our conviction that the future of Afghanistan and Iraq is a future of
liberty. The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat — it is to
prevail...The advance of freedom always carries a cost — paid by the
bravest among us."

    "Let history also record that our generation of leaders followed through
on these ideals, even in adversity. Let history show that in a decisive
decade [we] did not grow weary in our duties, or waver in meeting them...I
am confident that this young century will be liberty's century. I believe
we will rise to this moment...I have faith in the transforming power of
freedom."

    As John Kennedy said, "any danger spot is tenable if men — brave men,
will make it so." He would recognize President Bush's convictions as
his own — words and thoughts which have not changed a jot or a tittle in
the three years since September 11.

"[He is] decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute,
adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent."
Does anyone come to mind? Those were actually Winston Churchill's words
describing the Hitler appeasers leading the British government prior to
World War II. But it is an uncannily evocative description of John F. Kerry
on the matter of Iraq in 2004.

Now, let's try a few more quotes. "Efforts and courage are not enough
without purpose and direction." "I hear it said that West Berlin
is militarily untenable ” as so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was
Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men ” brave men ” will make it
so." Those were the words of John F. Kerry's hero, John F. Kennedy.

 It's amazing what a difference changing just four little letters in a last
name can mean.
Jack Kennedy would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship,
support any friend, oppose any foe." For John Kennedy: "Only a
few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour
of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility ƒ ” I welcome
it."

It is ironic that in this time and in this place, the direct descendent of
those words, and the virile passions they convey, can be found coming from
the mouth and heart not of the Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, but of
his opponent, the Texas Republican George W. Bush.









"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:4151dec0$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Name one or two areas of conflict where the U.N. "Skilled
diplomacy" has
or
> is working?
>
> Personally, I would like to see the entire U.N. move to France,
headquarters
> and all.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:4151d842$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> > "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> > news:opsequkpc2eipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
> > > Still waiting for all that impressive UN action against Sudanese
> genocide
> > > and the Iranians' open boast about getting ready to enrich tons of
> > > uranium.
> > >
> > > The UN will go the way of the League of Nations in my lifetime.  I'm
47.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gary Wiltshire
> >
> > I doubt the major powers want the U.N. strong enough to stop conflicts.
> Such
> > military power could be turned against them. The U.N. is an area where
> > skilled diplomacy still can have some effect. Unfortunately the current
> > administration seems to have relegated it into the obscurity that you
see
> in
> > it's future
> >
> >
>
>

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