THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VII, Issue # 155, July 20, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
CAN THE UNITED NATIONS REALLY BE REFORMED?
By Dr. Ron Paul
WHY THE UNITED NATIONS CANNOT BE REFORMED: THE UN AS A CORRUPT, INEFFECTIVE, & ILLEGITIMATE
SUPRA-NATIONAL GOVERNMENT -- THE NEED FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO REJECT THE
ULTRA-INTERNATIONALISM OF THE GLOBALISTS & RETURN TO REAL NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY & TO ALLIANCES THAT ARE IN
ACCORD WITH AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THAT ENDANGER NEITHER AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE NOR OUR
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. TO DISCARD
ITS INTERNATIONALIST, PRO-UN FOREIGN POLICY & TO ADOPT & PURSUE A TRULY NATIONALIST, PRO-AMERICAN FOREIGN
POLICY
FULL STORY:
In early June, 2005, the United States Congress, under the guise of United Nations "reform," voted to give that international body
unprecedented new authority to intervene in the affairs of individual sovereign states. The socalled "reform bill" theoretically
provides for Congress to withhold 50% of U.S. dues to the United Nations, but this will never happen. The bill allows the U.S.
Secretary of State to make the ultimate decision about payment of the dues, and the Liberal internationalist bureaucrats in the U.S.
Department of State strongly oppose withholding our dues to the UN. In fact, the State Department is the UN’s closest ally in the
entire U.S. government. This talk about withholding our dues is nothing but hot air designed to dupe real Conservatives outside
Washington, D.C., into believing Congress is getting tough with the United Nations. Nothing could be further from the truth. Both
the congressional leadership and the Bush administration are firmly committed to globalism, as evidenced not only by their
commitment to the UN, but also by their position on trade agreements like CAFTA. Mark my words, in five years, nobody will be
talking about UN reform and our dues payments will be higher than ever.
The supposed reform bill will not change the bureaucratic nature of the UN, nor will it transform the nation-states of the world into
wise, benevolent, selfless actors. It will, however, expand the UN’s role as world policeman and establish the precursor to a UN
army. If you don’t think that units of the U.S. Armed Forces should serve under a UN command, you should be aware that the
reform bill establishes a “Peacekeeping Commission” charged with bolstering the UN’s ability to respond with military force to
conflicts around the globe – even in wholly internal conflicts that do not affect the U.S.A. and its allies in the slightest.
Many American Conservatives have bought into the Neoconservative dream of using the United Nations as a tool to advance an
aggressive US foreign policy. But granting more power to the UN can only serve the interests and ideology of globalists, who see
national sovereignty as an obstacle to their goals. The more we involve ourselves with the UN, the more we entangle ourselves in
the affairs of other nations, to our own detriment. America has nothing to show for our sixty years in the UN, except for tens of
thousands of dead or injured soldiers, and hundreds of billions of wasted American tax dollars. The 20th century – the UN century
– was the bloodiest in the world’s history. We must stop fooling ourselves that the UN is an instrument of world peace.
The problem is not that the UN is corrupt, or ineffective, or run by scoundrels. The real problem is that the UN is inherently
illegitimate, illegitimate because supra-national government is an inherently illegitimate concept. Legitimate governments operate
only by the consent of those they govern. And it is ludicrous to suggest that billions of people across the globe have in any way
consented to UN governance, or have even the slightest influence over their own governments. Although the UN is perhaps the
least democratic institution imaginable, both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S.A. insist on using the UN to “promote
democracy.” We should stop worrying about the UN and simply walk away from it by withdrawing our membership and our money.
We should reject the ultra-internationalism of the globalists. We should demand a return to real national sovereignty and to
alliances that are in accord with American national interests and that threaten neither American independence nor our
constitutional democratic republican institutions of government. We should coalesce with and assist, but respect the sovereignty
of, foreign nations that are genuinely peaceful and are true friends of the U.S.A.
By abandoning our failed internationalist, pro-UN foreign policy and by adopting and pursuing a nationalist foreign policy, one
that is based the national interests of the U.S.A. and those of America's true allies, we would make the world a more peaceful
place.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, elected from and representing the Fourteenth
Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Paul is considered to be one of America's leading spokesmen for constitutional
government, the rule of law, liberty under law, the private enterprise system,, free market economics, sound monetary policy, and
fiscal restraint on the part of the U.S. national government.
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