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talkpoliticsWhat the hell. I'll x-post this here:
I just finished reading John Ringo and Tom Kratman's book Yellow Eyes. It's a sci-fi book, part of the Posleen War series. The afterward of this book was fascinating and fortunately, is available on the Internet.
What made this timely and interesting for me is a discussion I recently had with my wife about the United Nations. It actually had to do with the Model UN and the geeks who are "Model UN types". Yep, that's me. I was in the Model UN for three years in High School. So she asked me, if that were true, why do I have such disdain for the real UN?
The answer is simple, really. Most high school kids approach Model UN with some kind of starry-eyed idealism about the UN, or at least use it as a forum to hone their public speaking skills. The more alert student realize fairly quickly, having experienced how the UN works just how dangerous but thankfully mostly impotent they really are and have I feel a better understanding of the world we really live in. A few sadly, come away from the experience with the misguided beliefs that the UN is actually an effective body, capable and effective on the world stage.
Anyway, this Ringo and Kratman's essay speaks to this issue as well, and I thought I would share it with you. I’d appreciate your comments:
Afterword to "Yellow Eyes"
© 2007 | John Ringo and Tom Kratman
I just finished reading John Ringo and Tom Kratman's book Yellow Eyes. It's a sci-fi book, part of the Posleen War series. The afterward of this book was fascinating and fortunately, is available on the Internet.
What made this timely and interesting for me is a discussion I recently had with my wife about the United Nations. It actually had to do with the Model UN and the geeks who are "Model UN types". Yep, that's me. I was in the Model UN for three years in High School. So she asked me, if that were true, why do I have such disdain for the real UN?
The answer is simple, really. Most high school kids approach Model UN with some kind of starry-eyed idealism about the UN, or at least use it as a forum to hone their public speaking skills. The more alert student realize fairly quickly, having experienced how the UN works just how dangerous but thankfully mostly impotent they really are and have I feel a better understanding of the world we really live in. A few sadly, come away from the experience with the misguided beliefs that the UN is actually an effective body, capable and effective on the world stage.
Anyway, this Ringo and Kratman's essay speaks to this issue as well, and I thought I would share it with you. I’d appreciate your comments:
Afterword to "Yellow Eyes"
© 2007 | John Ringo and Tom Kratman
