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Diplomatic Divorce: Why America Should End Its Love Affair with the United Nations

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Thomas Kilgannon is truly one of the leading thinkers on the United Nations. He uses sound research and apt editorializing to present his case why involvement in the United Nations is detrimental to the sovereignty of the United States.

It's scary to think that an organization with as many corrupt bureaucrats as it has, is continually ceded so much power and authority. Thanks for the wake-up call Mr. Kilgannon.

In Diplomatic Divorce, Kilgannon shows why the UN is inherently flawed and cannot be reformed. It is a failed institution that provides false hope and feeds a bunch of parasites. America should get out of what he calls this global cult with its far reaching tentacles and sinister intentions.

The USA gives the UN and its agencies approximately $3 billion every year, to the unaccountable bureaucrats that work to undermine American interests and constantly demonize Israel. Worse, it is also the meeting place for terrorist cells and a hive of criminal activity. Assisted by the so-called transnational progressives, the UN is assailing the country on many fronts, from trying to usurp control of the Internet to threatening national security and including attempts to impose tax and gun laws.

This study investigates the attempts by United Nations globalists and their leftist enablers of all stripes to usurp American sovereignty. Kilgannon reveals the terrorists, human rights abusers and political deviants that make up the UN General Assembly and shines a light on the incorrigibly corrupt, incompetent, anti-American and anti-Israel bureaucrats of this contemptible organization. The praise singers of the UN include prominent members of the Democratic Party, eccentric billionaires, elements in the mass media and empty-headed celebrities.

In chapter 6: Pistols, Palaces and Petroleum, the Oil For Food scam is covered in detail. Kofi Annan could certainly do business with Saddam as he said, and he did. Moreover, the lucrative trade was spread widely to family members and business associates. The greatest beneficiaries were security council members France and Russia, while the Iraqi people starved. The author also devotes considerable space to the International Criminal Court. Under no circumstances should the USA legitimize this body, as the UN will do everything in its power to criminalize American foreign policy.

The love affair between the leftist elites and the unelected vermin from the darkest crevices of the planet constantly gives birth to more corruption, misery and oppression. Ultimately, the USA cannot continue to reconcile its membership in this body with its sovereignty and founding principles. The UN has gone way beyond being reformable. It is time for America to pull the plug. Despite what the Jimmy Carters and the Bill Clintons might say, withdrawal from the UN would be the right thing to do.

Other books that confirm Kilgannon's revelations include Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos by Dore Gold, The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat by Pedro Sanjuan, Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse Than You Think by Jed Babbin, The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World by Eric Shawn and The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward by Joshua Muravchik. Not all of these authors advcate complete withdrawal but their work is valuable in getting the complete picture of this profoundly evil institution.

Tom Kilgannon, along with Ollie North and others, helped show me the difference between being a Republican and a conservative. True to form, Diplomatic Divorce is a brutally honest look at what most globalists don't want Americans to know and most Americans seem blissfully unaware. Writes Kilgannon: "Here at home, they have captured the Democratic Party and are making in-roads in the GOP. They are forcing the United States to answer to a higher earthly authority. From trade to national security to tax policy to the Internet, advocates of universal government want to make the decisions that will chart America's future. In some cases, they already are. Whether we like it or not, we are in a war for America's destiny."

Kilgannon reminds us why he is quickly becoming a rising conservative star in America. Sovereignty is too special to sacrifice at any price, and yet our government has been giving it away at the United Nations. A fine read - a MUST read - for those who think they are ready to have their eyes opened to what really goes on at the United Nations. Kilgannon has written a conservative classic with Diplomatic Divorce, one I guarantee you won't just tuck away on a bookshelf. Kilgannon's latest will be the dog-eared book you keep at your desk as a reference - and as a reminder.

How should the people of a major nation such as the United States regard the United Nations? Well, there are a few possible approaches.

One is that the United Nations is, on the whole, good for everyone. Perhaps if we simply side with it, even its rulings against the United States will tend to improve things for us all, even for us Americans.

Another possibility is that the United Nations is, on the whole, bad for everyone. Perhaps if we simply side with it, its rulings will tend to cause more and more misery for us all, including us Americans.

Yet another possibility is that the truth is somewhere in between, and that on the average, the UN helps the world although it does cost us rich Americans something in order to accomplish that. If that were the case, we'd draw a line somewhere, perhaps with the more conservative Americans refusing to support the UN and the more liberal of us happy to support it.

I think, however, that the second of these possibilities is in fact the proper one. I think the UN is bad for everyone and ought to be outlawed. And while I'm giving this book five stars for exposing some of the problems with the UN, there are a couple of Kilgannon's arguments which I do not especially like.

The author argues that the UN is undermining American sovereignty. But to some extent, it may be a good idea for an international organization to place some restrictions on the sovereignty of individual nations. The real question is whether these restrictions are reasonable and productive or whether they simply risk ceding authority to some tyrants and bullies. This leads to Kilgannon's tendency to blame support for the UN on the Democrats, making the whole issue a partisan one. I do not like that at all; I think the fight against the UN needs to be a bipartisan one.

In addition, the author spends quite a bit of time discussing the extent of corruption at the United Nations. Here again, I think that while some of these scandals demonstrate the untrustworthiness of the UN, the main issue is how a "reformed" and scandal-free UN would perform. And I think that a fully, um, empowered and "reformed" UN could wind up being the most horrifying tyranny the world has yet seen.

On the whole, I agree with Kilgannon when he says that the UN has undermines our security and legitimizes illegitimate regimes. And I think it is indeed bad that the UN is so anti-American. I also agree with the author that we shouldn't "withdraw from the world - only from the United Nations." But I do think our argument ought to be that the UN is bad for everyone.