{"id":8060,"date":"2011-10-17T20:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2011-10-17T20:48:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:48:55","slug":"this-will-never-happen-but-it-is-a-wonderful-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=8060","title":{"rendered":"This Will Never Happen But It Is A Wonderful Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Friday CNSNews<\/a>\u00a0posted an article about a bill that just passed the House Foreign Relations Committee in the\u00a0House of Representatives with a vote of\u00a023-15. The bill is the\u00a0U.N. Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act (H.R. 2829). \u00a0It would\u00a0force the U.N. to change its funding mechanism from the current system of \u201cassessed\u201d contributions to voluntary ones. In simple terms the bill would allow the United States and other members of the United Nations to\u00a0fund only those activities and agencies it regards as being efficiently managed, and in the national interest. Obviously, had this law been in effect in the 1990’s, we might have avoided the food for oil scandal. Frankly, what the bill would actually do, other than save taxpayers millions of dollars, would be to defund the United Nations. Considering that the United Nations lost its way a long time ago, I really think that is a great idea. Unfortunately, I am probably not the majority opinion.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

In a letter to Ros-Lehtinen [Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.)]\u00a0on Wednesday, Clinton (Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State) expressed strong opposition to the measure, saying if it reached the president, she would recommend a veto.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Citing U.N. missions in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples, she argued that international engagement through the U.N. comes at a fraction of the cost of acting alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill also represents a dangerous retreat from the longstanding, bipartisan focus of the United States on constructive engagement within the United Nations to galvanize collective action to tackle urgent security problems,\u201d she wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we act to diminish our global stature, the United States would surrender a key platform from which to shape international priorities, such as obtaining tough sanctions on Iran.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the hearing, Ros-Lehtinen referred to Clinton\u2019s letter, and in particular the suggestion that the legislation could harm U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan because other countries would not share the burden by paying for U.N. missions in those countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDoes the administration have such little faith in our allies and in our diplomacy \u2013 which they pride themselves on \u2013\u00a0 to think that they would not share the burden of fighting Islamist extremists unless the U.N. forced them to?\u201d she asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Has it occurred to anyone that the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is the most powerful bloc in the United Nations and is not going to do anything to significantly limit the actions of radical Islam?<\/p>\n

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