A Seat At the Big Table

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

So President Obama has come out in favor of giving India a seat on the UN Security Council. I for one really support this.

India certainly fits what one would expect from a Council member and as the world's largest democracy I think they provide a nice counter-balance to China. Also, we're talking about the only other nation that can claim 1/6th of the human race. Yes, Pakistan isn't too happy about the idea but nukes or not they don't have enough weight politically to shoot this down. So culturally, politically and economically adding India to the Council seems like a great decision to me.

Thoughts?

Comments

[prader.livejournal.com]

I think the U.N. should be abolished.

[mrsilence.livejournal.com]

I certainly think the U.S. should stop paying for it.

Then it might even be able to actually get something useful done.

[prader.livejournal.com]

Yeah, or just have the U.S. resign membership, along with all financial support to the U.N., IMF, Worldbank, etc. The U.N. doesn't have to actually be disbanded.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that worked out well with the League of Nations. Screw any public forum for international discussion. Stop talking to each other. More wars are obviously the intelligent answer.

[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. The League of Nations could have done a lot if it hadn't fallen apart shortly before Europe started going to hell.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

If by shortly before Europe went to Hell you mean the moment the ink was dry when Germany, the USSR, and the USA were all either excluded or uninterested in being involved, sure.

[prader.livejournal.com]

Screw any public forum for international discussion.

You would have something resembling a point if "a public forum for international discussion" was the extent of what the U.N. is.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

That was never a priority with the League of Nations in any serious sense. If it was, the USA would have ratified Versailles and the League would not have excluded Germany and the USSR right out of the starting gate. There's a reason it was a joke.....

[mrsilence.livejournal.com]

Although that's probably entirely too optimistic.

As soon as you got rid of one blocker, another one will fill its place.