Showdown at the UN

[Ronin13]

I would support Haley to run to become the first woman US President. She's kicking serious ass in the UN. With the latest move by Trump to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, there's a lot of ire from Palestine (still can't find that country on any atlas or map), and other countries, like Turkey. Now we're going to be "taking names" of those who vote against the US, and Trump is threatening to halt any funding to countries that vote against us, saying "we'll save a lot of money." I'm really liking this administration more and more than I had anticipated from last November!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...ake-names.html

[kidicarus13]

I can only hope Trump follows through with his promise halt funding. The US has been foolish with its foreign aid spending for decades.

[Zundfolge]

I won't be happy until the US is no longer a member of the UN ... and the UN is kicked out of New York ... and the building razed ... and the earth salted so that nothing will ever grow there again.

[Ronin13]

I won't be happy until the US is no longer a member of the UN ... and the UN is kicked out of New York ... and the building razed ... and the earth salted so that nothing will ever grow there again.

THIS!
Seriously, outside of telling people "Don't give anything, money, supplies or otherwise to XXXX country" (IE: sanctions) and sending strongly worded letters, what power does the UN really have? It's not like they have actually done much of anything except produce reports on bad actors. So many people think that if we were to withdraw from the UN we wouldn't have any allies anymore. Uh, no, they're not mutually exclusive.

[RblDiver]

THIS!
It's not like they have actually done much of anything except produce reports on bad actors.

Don't forget the regular rape their troops do, that's an accomplishment of theirs. Not a good accomplishment, but one nonetheless.

[Ronin13]

Don't forget the regular rape their troops do, that's an accomplishment of theirs. Not a good accomplishment, but one nonetheless.

Oh that's right! I totally forgot about that. The only redeeming quality was the behavior exhibited by UN troops in Rwanda when they wanted to intervene in the genocide- of course Clinton and the other heads at the UN said "No, don't intervene, we don't want another Somalia." Which shows more ineptitude within the UN in "peacekeeping."

[clodhopper]

[Gman]

I won't be happy until the US is no longer a member of the UN ... and the UN is kicked out of New York ... and the building razed ... and the earth salted so that nothing will ever grow there again.

+1/Like....hell yeah! They can't manage to maintain their own building in NY. They can go hang out in some shithole in the Middle East.

[68Charger]

I think being a part of the UN should be looked at like "keep your friends close and your enemies closer"... that's NOT how the Obama admin looked at the relationship, but it looks like Trump has the right idea.

I'd love for the UN to be dissolved- and maybe this kind of shakeup could be a catalyst that eventually leads to that.... but while they're meeting, we need to be at the table to make sure they're not doing this shit behind our back.

ETA: They can call it "votes for sale" if they want, but pulling funding that existed from a previous administrations is NOT the same thing as paying them to vote a certain way.... those payments probably started that way with the previous administrations.

[Skip]

Between this and the EO... Wow.

Wars have been started over less.