At 02:43 1998-05-17 -0500, you wrote: > Morgan Olsson writes: > >> >The US has to do the job that the UN was supposed to do. Now that the UN >> >is dying, somebody must stand for Truth and Justice. >> >> Well, the UN is dying because some countries, especially US, do not pay >> their shared costs (could not remember the right word now), and general >> lack of interest from some countries. >> > > The US, under Regan's advice, did not pay its dues for several years, >because the US was tired of paying 1/4 the total costs of a beurocratic >juggernaut. The US is nearly complete in repaying back-dues now. Excuse me, have not noticed that. > Apathy, however, is currently and will always be a problem that >plagues the UN. Well we have to either fix that problem or rebuild UN. Single superpower may not act police for rest of the world! /Morgan >-- >Matthias Granberry >Gonff@windmillbbs.com >Caffeine, nicotine, and execution all serve as "normalizing agents". > -- "Attention Deficit Disorder" / Morgan Olsson, MORGANS REGLERTEKNIK, SE-277 35 KIVIK, Sweden \ \ mrt@iname.com, ph: +46 (0)414 70741; fax +46 (0)414 70331 /