On
Tuesday, President Trump will address the United Nations for the very first
time. (I know, the media would like you to believe he’s been ruining their
world for years, but that was somebody else whom they’ll never blame.) It is
likely he will need to talk about climate change and North Korea and whether an
irrelevant and ineffective organization like the UN is compatible with the
America First Agenda we voted into office last November—sorry libs.
But
what the world is really waiting to hear is where President Trump will stand on
Obama’s Iranian birthday present and clear path to nuclear armament, I mean
nuclear energy.
The New
York Times once again has both leads written:
“Trump
caves in like a girl scout platoon and apologizes weakly to the UN about
everything mean that he said without thinking and agrees to give Iran whatever
it wants and now we have no credibility with or respect from anybody in the
world community and North Korea will probably blow up California.” Is that
about how you’d like to see it, Ann Coulter?
Or “Trump
doubles down on tough talk and reiterates why we won’t finance global wealth
distribution disguised as climate concern and continues to insist that if North
Korea attacks we will annihilate them. Additionally, he told the UN we don’t
really need them and that Iran needs to rethink how much they like living above
ground, thereby throwing the entire planet into an unstable state that
threatens to end life as we know it.”
I’m
kind of hoping for the latter, although I don’t think demonstrating strength in
the face of global cowardice will result in an unstable environment but I do
hope it ends life as the left would like to know it.
First
of all the U.S. pays 22% of the UN operating budget. That percentage was
arrived at through some complicated formula involving size of country
population and ability and willingness to pay, which could be described as
naivete and willingness to be used like a bar of soap. China is a real close
second at paying 10% of the budget because their population is so much smaller
and…hey, wait!
Whatever.
Our part amounts to $1.2 billion which seems a trifling amount to a country in
debt now over $20,000,000,000,000 (that should be trillion if I counted my
zeroes right).
Then of
course there’s the peacekeeping budget, which is separate. It looks like we
will pay another $2.2 billion this year for that which brings us to a total of
29% of the UN budget. China is still at 10% overall. There are 193 member
nations in the UN. Some of them must be really tiny.
It’s
not like it’s the first time we’ve ignored our own laws, especially when it
comes to wanting the rest of the world to like us, but in 1997 Bill Clinton
signed a law limiting our participation in the United Nations to a maximum of
25% of their total expenditure. Oops. And that’s not just this year. Last year
we were 28% and change. We’ve been as high as 30% and never under 25%. (Check Politifact, Wikipedia, any number of
internet sources.)
And don’t
even get me started on who sends the most men and women into harm’s way when
the UN decides to launch a peacekeeping mission (read, “We will have the US of
A kick your ass if you don’t listen to us”).
They’ve
never even let us be in charge of the stupid clubhouse, although we built it
and house it on our shore cuz we may be the least likely place to be bombed, temporarily
forgetting the World Trade Center. Since 1946 when the UN was formed the Secretaries-General
have all been from smaller countries—Norway, Sweden, Burma, Austria, Peru,
Egypt, Ghana, South Korea and currently some fellow named Antonio Guterres from
Portugal. Portugal?
I know,
I know, if they let an American be Sec-Gen, Russia would probably drop out, in
spite of how hard they worked to make Donald Trump president.
It’s
not like the UN doesn’t do some good stuff—food and refugee aid during
disasters; peacekeeping when it’s needed and sure, who better to do that then
us; helping children; war crimes prosecution; reproductive health and
population management (?????); fighting AIDS; and bossing the US around like
they have more to say about our stuff than we do.
If they
want to deliver food and aid to earthquake or genocide victims, then may whoever’s
God a particular country subscribes to bless them and the US will probably
happily overpay. I’m ok with that.
But if
we need to tell North Korea we’re going to turn them into a grease spot if they
don’t be careful, or if we need to tell Iran, “Nope. Not a real treaty. Just
another BS wet dream Barack Obama had,” then the UN should shut up and be happy
we let them play on our shore.
Here
are six reasons I borrowed from the Washington Times (that’s the little paper
democrats in Washington don’t read) that President Trump should tell Iran and
the UN to take their deal and shove it:
1.
The agreement and super-comforting pinky swear
promise that Iran made to not develop anything that will blow up with their now
unrestricted ability to purchase plutonium expires in 15 years. There is no
plan for after that. My grandson will be 15 years old. It will matter to him.
2. The
agreement calls for the UN to give Iran 24-DAY
NOTICE before any outside inspectors can be sent in to check out nuclear
sites. You could move or hide just about anything in 24 days even if you aren’t
David Copperfield.
3.
All economic sanctions were removed
under the agreement before Iran’s abandonment of nuclear weapons manufacture could
be verified. It is still not verified,
but sleep well.
4.
There are absolutely no consequences in
the agreement for violation of said agreement by the Iranians. There is some
vague language about the possible reinstatement of some of the previous economic sanctions but no other penalty.
5. US
and Canadian inspectors are NOT
allowed to participate in any inspections of Iranian nuclear sites. “Inspectors
will be from countries that have approved diplomatic relations with the Islamic
Republic of Iran.” In other words, folks dependent on Iran for oil.
6. And
nothing in the agreement actually matters anyway because the UN agency that
would normally carry out the inspections cut a “secret and separate” deal with
Iran that would allow Iran to use it’s own inspectors, which pretty much
neutered any kind of watchdog oversight to make sure Iran is playing by even
the loose and lenient rules to which they agreed.
That is so comforting,
considering that Kim Jong Un is the only guy on the planet that keeps anyone
from saying Iran is the craziest, most unstable, untrustworthy nation currently
on the in existence. And they love America. Ask Maxine or Nancy.
Can’t wait til Tuesday. I’m always
excited to hear what the New York Times thinks. Right now I have to go get ready to hopefully watch the Denver Broncos
do Trump-like things to the Dallas Cowboys.
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