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It sounds like someone in the British government found a set of balls. It's too bad nobody in our government can find a pair. It is always amazing how we continue to support an organization that throws us under the bus at every opportunity.
The u.n. has proven itself to be corrupt time and time again. And they are completely out of touch with reality. How could an organization with any sense of reality put countries like libya and iran on any kind of "rights" council. Neither of those countries knows anything about human rights, womens rights or any other kind of rights.
The u.n. is an outdated, irrelevent organiztion that should be put to sleep...
By George Russell - FoxNews
Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week: the British government, long one of the U.N.’s staunchest supporters.
In a sweeping and hard-nosed reorganization of priorities for its $10.6 billion multilateral foreign aid program, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government of Prime Minister David Cameron has pulled the financial plug entirely on four U.N. agencies at the end of next year, put three others judged merely “adequate” on notice that they could face the same fate unless they improve their performance “as a matter of absolute urgency;” and issued pointed criticisms of almost all the rest.
The major exception: UNICEF, the U.N. children’s aid agency, which got a strong endorsement and a funding increase.
The tough actions were revealed as the Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairperson Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Moreover, the British actions change the focus of the debate, from gauzy generalizations about the need for and importance of the U.N. to a realistic look at what it actually achieves.
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