Should we leave the UN

[jiacinto]

a question

[bicentennial_baby]

1. In a word

No...why would you ask this? The UN is in great need of reform, but should we pull out of it? hell no.

[htuttle]

2. No

an answer.

[Terwilliger]

3. An answer

NO

[Forkboy]

4. No

why do you ask?

[maddezmom]

5. No Way

Needs reform, but so does our political system.

[La_Serpiente]

6. HECK NO

I know it's just a question and I don't think you really believe it, but no, we shouldn't because there needs to be an international framework where the countries of the world can have an open discourse. It is not a perfect system, but it is better than nothing.

What has it prevented? We haven't had a World War since its existence. Sure, there has been genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda, but that is mainly the fault of the countries that lead it like the US and Europe. That is why we need other countries like Brazil, Egypt, or South Africa and Australia on it so that there would be a balance of sorts.

It is just an organization that needs reform.

[buddhamama]

7. no

[greekspeak]

8. No

Would not suprise me if the U.S. did. The current administration exploits and trashes the UN at will. If it suited the administration's need, they would trump up a bunch of charges and find some way to get the U.S. out of it.

[Kamika]

9. I think so

The UN is no longer relevant as a organisation to set up world-wide terms etc.

We and several other nations have showed tme and again that there is no penalty whatsoever if you break a resolution the UN passes.

Then add that there are numerous dictatorships etc in it helping setting up these resolutions.. which makes the UN look like a joke.

No sorry the UN is over.. it was a cold war product and the cold war is gone.

As the UN looks now I dont see any reason we should be part of it. It's not like we listen to it anyway.

Instead reorganize it into a strictly aid and peace keeping organisation and we could join it again.

[rucky]

10. They Want to Take Away Our Guns!

sorry...there's a billboard in my neighborhood (in front of someone's house) that says that.

I could see Hans Blix searching under my bed for a rifle.

We could put Paxil in the water system & we may not need the UN, but until then...

[Scott Lee]

11. Yes, and rejoin when we can grow up....

And the UN is reformed with a powerful military force of it's own.

Kamika is right - the UN's relevence has been marginalized by its retainment of Cold War structure and administration. Without a powerful military force of it's own, there is nothing to stop a "superpower" from any criminal act it wants to commit.

See the US war on Iraq as an example.

[Uzybone]

12. No

and those saying the US should leave the UN instead of improving it sound too much like those who want kids to jettison public schools instead of improving them.

No man (or country) is an island

[DuctapeFatwa]

13. Yes. US policy is incompatible with the UN charter

The UN is about non-violent resolution of conflict, respect for sovereignty and cooperation.

The UN has a chance to be a significant force for good as opposed to a "International Approval" rubber-stamp of the US doctrine that all countries are US property and exist to generate revenues for US business interests.

[Terwilliger]

15. I don't disagree

but that doesn't mean I want the US out of the UN

[ShaneGR]

14. NO, and we should stabalize NATO ASAP

Plus, you're supposed to give your own oppinion.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. Is that a serious question?

And isn't one of numbnuts' goals? At least to emasculate the UN?

[jiacinto]

17. My other question

Should we leave NATO, NAFTA, and the WTO too?

[mndemocrat_29]

18. No