Mitt Romney; Disband the UN….
Posted on October 18, 2007
A single tear just rolled down my cheek….
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. – Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney called the United Nations a failure on Thursday and said he would support a new coalition of the free nations of the world.
The former Massachusetts governor said the U.N. Human Rights Council has repeatedly condemned Israel while taking no action against nations with repressive regimes.
"The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. "We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council."
Actually, the United States doesn’t have a seat on the human rights council, which it has been boycotting.
Romney also said he would support a new "coalition of the free nations of the world and bring those nations together so that we can act together."
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Crossposted from Weasel Zippers…
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Well, really what do you expect when the UN “Human rights” council lets the biggest violators sit as members? I noticed that we say “Jury of one’s Peers” doesn’t mean 12 rapists at a rape trial, or 12 murderers at a murder trial…
I support a pullout from the UN (and he’s far from the first to suggest it), but seriously… Isn’t anyone briefing this guy before he opens his mouth?
Jeff what is your politics again? Socially liberal, fiscal conservative, Conservative on states rights, and libertarian on everything else?
I’d say he is everything you listed with the exception of “Conservative on states rights.”
Well, I wouldn’t have included that until he surprised me recently on the Scalia/abortion post. He said.
there are several possible conclusions that a rational person can reach and it should come as no surprise that different states would legislate the matter differently. If we don’t think state governments are the appropriate venue for such a contentious, irreconcilable issue, what issues should they handle?
Perhaps that mislead me to believe he thought this was an issue that should be left to States to decide?
No, you’re right, Jay.
I don’t necessarily know which labels fit me best, but basically, I believe in small, decentralized government. I abhor attempts at economic engineering and I abhor attempts at social engineering. The government exists solely to protect individual rights, not to manipulate society in quixotic effort to make it as “good” as possible.
And like I said in that birth control post, local government is responsive to community members, so we can keep it from straying from its duties. State government is less so. Federal government, not at all.
Ron Paul intruduces a bill to Congress each year, for the US to get out of the UN.
I know, you guys hate him. But when Rommeny, or Huckabee-hound say something Ron Paul has been saying for the last 20 years, it’s ok.
Nice logic.