Senate Armed Services Sept 23, 2002

Mr. Chairman, at the end of World War Two when the United States had a nuclear weapons monopoly and when our gross domestic product was fifty percent of the world's production, President Roosevelt and later President Truman recognized that even with that strength, The United States, by itself, wasn't strong enough, wasn't capable of handling all of the world's problems in assuring peace and security by itself. And so they sought to create an institution which would be better than the defunct League of Nations and they built the United Nations. And President Truman said the method of the United Nations should be that "Right makes might".

We've spent the fifty five, fifty seven years since then trying to develop international institutions that would help strengthen America and help protect our interests as well as the interests of people around the world.But we recognized that a world in which nations are only regulated and guided unilaterally in seeking their self-interest is not a world that's in our best advantage

.So for that reason I think it's very important not only that we've gone to the United Nations, but that we do everything we possibly can do to strengthen the United Nations to stand up to this challenge, to make itself an effective organization, to be able to cope with the challenge of Saddam Hussein's defiance of it's resolutions.

Beyond the issue of The United Nations and the international institutions we seek to live in, I think going to The United Nations has another important, very important, benefit. In the long run, we're going to have to live with the people in the Middle East. They're our neighbors. They're just like us. Many of them have the same hopes and dreams. The more we can do to difuse the perception that America is acting alone, that America is striking out, that America is belligerent, that America is acting without Allies, The more we can do to difuse that, the more we can do to put that in the context of international institutions and the support of the governments in the region, the greater chance we have of reducing the recruiting draw of Al Quaeda; Following through with the successful post-conflict operation in Iraq; Promoting a resolution of the Arab Israeli conflict and promoting peaceful democratization in a number of moderate Arab governments

.So I think the long term consequences, the long term benefits of operating through The United Nations are very high.And finally there's an immediate short term benefit. It'll be very, very useful to us to have Allies. Many nations in that region want us to go throught The United Nations. They'll be empowered by The United Nations Resolution. So I think if we can get that Resolution it's to our near term military advantage and our long term advantage as a nation.

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[Clairemont619]

hell yeah, the US is a lean mean money making machine.

[velvetrevolution4u]

The original concept of the U.N. wasn't to protect and expand big multi national corporations. It was to create a framework where the U.S. DOES NOT have to be the world's police officer. The idea was everyone else chipping in their part so the U.S. doesn't have to carry the load all by iself like we are having to do in Iraq right now. That's what we get when we disregard other nations and get a go it alone, INTERVENTIONIST mentality, trying to police the world like Bush/Cheney and the neocons.

[klard]

When I refer to globalisation I am not referring to global trade. Globalisation refers to a power shift.

[Veetina]

corporations need nationless countries to rule the world

[occasioneel]

The US promoted globalisation and thanks to globalisation and outsourcing work to India and offshoring production to China the US economy even though weaker than a decade ago is still the strongest economy in the world so instead of creating problems globalisation created opportunities for every nation in the world.

[klard]

Globalist propoganda. The globalists are the cause of most of these problems. The other countries don't hate Americans, they hate what Americans are deceived into doing to them by wealthy elitists. Easy solution- stop whoring our military out to do the dirty work for international corporations.

[bobstride]

The man is brilliant, everyone should see these videos!