Hello Ebou:
First and foremost, I would like to assure everyone that Pat Buchanan will never have the power to kick the UN out of NY.  Actually, just this morning on my way to work, one of the local talk show hosts on the AM band was talking about how America should stop taking care of the UN.  This, almost as if the rest of the World is unable to manage it's own business through the UN without America.  This false premise is based on the fact that the UN is headquartered in NY plus the high amount of $s that it pays as it's share of the UN quota.  However, if I recall correctly the USA has not paid  its agreed share of this quota in recent times. An amount that is in the billions. But the Un has tsill survived in NY of all places.  Instead, senators, like Jesse Helms, are witholding this money until the UN meets certain demands that this country has set forth.  A totally unreasonable policy in my opinion.

You see, the UN will survive without the US because there are other countries, like Japan, that pay their quota regularly and on time.  Furthermore, the US does not want to become a pariah nation by withdrawing fom the United Nations, a false but symbolic representation of a united World.  Maybe it's economic power will not be curtailed as much, but there is no doubt that this country's political influence will be affected negatively.  Even the notorious racist, Jesse Helms, will not want to go down in history as the man reponsible for this.


On an added note, I bristled at your comment that Kofi Annan would be pursuing ideological diversions by opening the plight of the World to the crises in Africa and trying to implement policies and strategies that would avoid such crises from happening.  I assume that your description of such a noble undertaking as an 'ideological diversion' was a slip of your pen, as they say, or just totally misconstrued by myself.  After all, Boutros Gali was instrumental in Israeli/Arab negotiations.  So why should Kofi Annan not use his position to at least try to make Africa a better place?

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