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Stan Horwitz > wrote:

> though that it wasn't a good idea to allow Qadafi to visit this country
> and speak before the United Nations.

I'm sure it was nice of the US to give the UN a home. Still, the more
that the US acts like it "owns" the UN, the less respect the US and the
UN will get from countries that don't always agree with everything the
US does.

Like Gaddafi or don't like him, he has been the head of state of Libya
since 1970. If the US gets to decide who is "allowed" to attend the UN
and speak before them, how much is the rest of the world going to
believe that the UN has any independence from the US?

I have always believed that people who speak before the UN will garner
the respect that they deserve. I thought Kruschev made a fool of
himself when he took off his shoe, pounded the speaker's podium with it
and proclaimed that "we will bury you".

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA