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Originally posted by theking
Do you think my post is in disagreement with the point?
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Disagreement? No. I hadn't after all, stated a position, only another perspective. Maybe my bad, but you quoted me and I couldn't see a direct link between what we each wrote.
Our exchange apart, I also commented further because it appears that many in this thread seem to assume that foreign aid is selfless charity and not an integral part of foreign/economic policy. Nor is the UN some sort of savings bank into which we pay money one day and are supposed to be able to pull out tangible rewards the next.
There are many valid reasons to be critical of the UN, but it is far from a simple issue. I'm not sure how much of a recommendation it is, but the current administration appears to believe that the UN still matters. Although the events of 911 likely prompted some of the increased financial committment it has made to the UN, the decision to rejoin UNESCO (which Reagan pulled us out of in 1984) came several months earlier.