A remarkably bad and unnecessary way to deal with the UN problem

WorldNetDaily: TV campaign urging: Kick U.N. out of U.S. :
"A new anti-United Nations television campaign is reversing the familiar refrain 'get the U.S. out of the U.N.,' and instead urges the global body be kicked out of the U.S."

Kicking the UN out of the US accomplishes nothing of value. Especially as the campaign is not geared toward getting the US to quit the nascent world government, but only advocates renegotiating the US share of UN expenses.

The important point is not what percentage of the bill we pay for a hopelessly flawed experiment, but that we pay anything at all. It is certainly possible to make a case for withdrawal from the UN and we ought to do so at every opportunity.

This new "anti-UN" campaign fails my test of fights conservatives should fight because it does not seize the moral high ground. Kicking the UN's personnel out of the US appears crudely xenophobic and quibbling about the US share of the budget is just a sordid squabble about money and not principal.

Actually, there is something to be said for having all those foreign diplomats in NYC. They help support some nice restaurants and clothing stores and a number of dry cleaners. It also provides opportunities for intelligence work.

On the other hand, we may not have the UN in NYC much longer unless we are prepared to pony up a large pile of dough. It seems to old building is literally falling apart and will be cheaper to replace than to fix. The only reason the Volcker investigation is going forward, rather than the usual UN whitewashing of past scandals, is to scrub up the UN's image in preparation of asking for the US taxpayer to fund a new headquarters. Maybe that's also behind the talk of Bill Clinton for Secretary General. Putting an American face on the enterprise might help open the tax dollar spigot. The only other American to serve in that role was the first one, Alger Hiss, a communist agent.