February 15, 2003
It’s not only babes who remind us of our follies and failures. This from Andy Rooney’s column in my local paper today:
...No one mentions the fact that we have all the nasty weapons we accuse Iraq and North Korea of having. No one suggests we destroy our vast store of biological killers. No one is demanding that a U.N. inspection team be allowed to take an inventory of the weapons we have in sufficient quantity to wipe out all mankind…..
and
...There has been life on Earth for more than 3 billion years. Mankind has only been dominant on the planet for something like 100,000 years. Progress has been slow but we’ve made some. There’s no guarantee that life on the planet will not revert to what it was before we organized it the way it is today. Destroying the United Nations by ignoring it would be a step in that direction.
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Mike Presky on 15 Feb 2003
Actually plenty of people, I for one, have been mentioning that the US has all of these things. As well as suggesting that we destroy our nuclear and biological and chemical weapons, all the way back to the Ban the Bomb movement in the 40s and 50s. It's just that people like Andy Rooney never listen. :)
As far as inviting UN inspection teams into the US, how does one go about doing this? Can an average citizen just send them an invitation? Is there a proper etiquette by which one can do this? Should I call Miss Manners?
Why doesn't someone start a petition to do just this?
Elaine on 15 Feb 2003
Yes, of course. I was in college in the 50s; I remember also wanting to Ban the Bomb. I also actively protested our involvement in Viet Nam, Guatamala, El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, etc. etc. But I don't have a newspaper column, so no one wants to quote me either. And you're also right about Andy Rooney. But people know who he is. And I have signed every online petition against this war, but I don't see them having any impact on policy at all. So, another one is probably not going to make any waves either. Congratulations on your New Pajamas.
Robin on 16 Feb 2003
That has been at the back of my mind for some time now. The rest of the U.N. has to be thinking "Hey, if this cowboy rides off to war with THIS as his basis, how long until he comes to our country, using the same excuse?"
dzwonki polifoniczne nokia on 14 Jun 2004
Hmmmmm interesting !!!