He [Chavez] also said the U.N. "doesn't work" in its current system...And that's where our agreement ends.
I don't think we're getting much value out of hosting and giving money to the United Nations. It's a clubhouse for thugs and dictators.
If you rule people under any system other than liberal democracy (meaning a democracy with guaranteed individual rights and limited governmental power), your power is illegitimate. Why should such rulers be especially respected? Who cares about what they have to say? They are oppressors of their peoples and should be treated as such.
Sometimes you have to negotiate with a tyrant out of necessity, but you don't have to let him set up shop in your home. We should be meeting and planning with other liberal democracies and telling the barbarians that they can come inside when they start answering to their citizens.
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Yeah, you're right. I only consider governments of, by, and for their people to be legit, and I have an even higher standard for governments I actually respect.
I'd be willing to put up with all the twisted speeches to the General Assembly if the Security Council were actually able to do some good in the world.
But after several genocides in recent years and the currptions in the UN, I've pretty much given up on it. And Democrats (outside of a few reasonable people such as Alan Derchowitz) have demonized John Bolton, someone who wants to reform the UN.
What's paerticularly distressing, though, is not just Hugo Chavez speaking at the UN in NYC, but that I meet so many Americans who seem to like him! What is up with that?
"If you rule people under any system other than liberal democracy (meaning a democracy with guaranteed individual rights and limited governmental power), your power is illegitimate."
Along similar lines I am getting really torqued at Western media that write reports that strain mightily at giving equal numbers of quotes to Bush and the tyrant du jour (mainly Ahmadinejad of late) in an attempt to orchestrate a point and counterpoint. One represents his people in the sense you describe (I can hear the howls from the Left, but the point is valid despite their grievances) and the other deserves to be ignored because he was hand picked to be put on a ballot by a handful of rather powerful Mullahs.
I began to lose my sense of humor about this naive attempt at balance about when Hezbollah launched thousands of unguided shrapnel filled missiles at Israeli population centers. These guys and their backers need to be called out by the great institutions of the West, not given equal air time in some farcical attempt at objectivity. I am left to conclude that Western journalism as currently practiced is a low profession indeed judged by the values that typically prevail in liberal democracies.
Well said and the same said for loafingoaf and anonymous. The respondent es made a comment to the affect that MSM does not want to air the efforts and actions of moderate Muslims. That is the corollary of giving credence to the likes of Chavez and hamas.
Yeah lets move the whole damn UN to somewhere else then HUGO CHAVEZ can smell his own stinky smell
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