good ol' popey..

[Barbarossa]

You know things are getting bad when he starts with the "blue text within quotes" routine...

Time to leave.

[Skillian]

j2k4, while I think a lot of what you say is true, I'm not ready to throw in the towel just yet. If the UN is too messed up and blinded by its quest for cash to do anything, then as people of the world we should try and change it, try to demand action.

I admit I am still wide-eyed and optimistic, maybe even naive, when it comes to politics. When I look at my friends, most have never voted and never will, and most don't really give a crap about what happens the other side of the world. I'm just not ready to join them yet (not that I'm saying that's how you see things - I'm sure it isn't).

I hope in a month or two's time I can point and say: "Hah! you were wrong, the UN did some good out there". However, I can't deny there is a niggling voice in the back of my head that says your assessment might be spot on. I just hope it isn't.

[j2k4]

The U.N. has forgotten it's charter.

It is no longer even the font of good intentions, it is a perpetual sponge with a nipple.

I wish I were wrong, but frankly, how can we expect an organization with a membership of home country corruption to be anything but corrupt?

The permanent members are merely the best of a bad lot.

[Busyman]

You know things are getting bad when he starts with the "blue text within quotes" routine...

Time to leave.

I was thinking the same but I just skip it.

It's like you starting reading but then, "Okayyy, wee bit o blue" then...."Awww fuck, a whole lotta blue...next post."