LEAVE THE U.N.
Ron Silver on Fox:HANNITY: But one of the things that really bothered me, the things I have been hearing here tonight, beyond this notion, Ron Silver, that we're going to bow at the altar of the United Nations and gather their blessing and approval to do what's in our best national security interest, you heard on this program here tonight that we went into this effort to control the oil, which is not true. And that we're not viewed as a liberating force, and all of our reporters have said quite the controversy. There have been open arms and flowers and happiness among the Iraqi people. That's what bothers me. The people that were wrong about going in, now they're wrong and lying about these things.
SILVER: It's also useful, I think, to think of the U.N. as an institution in terms of what it really is. They're a group of sovereign nations with their own national interests there. So there's no (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the U.N. as an institution. You're talking about Russia protecting its interests, France protecting its interests, whether it's oil, whether it's whatever it is that they're trying to protect. Now, if you want to talk about the U.N., the last four and a half years the Congo has been having a civil war; 3.5 million people have been butchered, massacred, slaughtered. There's about three million people with HIV. There's a token U.N. force. It doesn't come up in the Security Council. It's not in the general -- in the Sudan, two million animists and Christians have been slaughtered by Muslims in the last several decades -- in the last five years. It doesn't come up at the U.N. Why do we look to the U.N. for -- to do the right thing?
Yup. Silver is one actor who knows his facts. The UN is worse than useless. Time to toss it overboard.
(thanks to Hanks)