kolanuraven
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Bolton just resigned!!!
passin thru said:Didn't ya know..............sometimes ya have to cut and run :lol:
Not that I love the UN or think they have done a great job in the Middle East for instance, but they're what we have to work with and improve versus ignore them or start over.
R2 said:
reader (the Second) said:Never knew "ilk" was a negative connotation word![]()
kolanuraven said:Why keep yapping about how " bad" the UN is...why not shut up and try to get in there and make it better? If we don't/can't or don't want to...no one else will give it much credit either!
It's there...make it work for us!
reader (the Second) said:Look PT and others of your ilk, there's a spectrum from
1- appeasement which is what Europe was doing with Arabs/Palestinians for the past decade (surprising given that appeasement of the Nazis didn't work)
2 - diplomacy and attempts to cooperate internationally
3 - coordinated international actions as in the former Yugoslavia when diplomacy will not work
4 - invasion all on our own and thumbing our nose at the world
More than that, as my gentleman caller explains, there is Bush who does not explain WHY and WHAT he's doing and Blair who comes across as a caring, intelligent, informed man who up until recently was trusted by his countryman. Blair explains when challenged. Bush does not and hence the enormous loss of goodwill and percentage points in the polls and eventually the loss of majority in the Congress.
My point is you do us "liberals" a disservice to assume we're appeasement types like the French were. I was never an appeasement type. Before you heard of the Middle East, I criticized Europe for appeasement and anti-Israel / anti-Semitic behavior. Ditto the UN.
What do you think Bolton was trying to do? He was trying to do his best to fix what he could fix, wasn't he? We need somebody that will look out for our interests. You libs just want somebody that will go in there and kiss Kofi Annan's crooked black ass.kolanuraven said:Why keep yapping about how " bad" the UN is...why not shut up and try to get in there and make it better? If we don't/can't or don't want to...no one else will give it much credit either!
It's there...make it work for us!
reader (the Second) said:jigs said:I have noticed that R2 puts in her 2 cents with a 5 dollar word or two!
makes me stop and think or get out my dictionary !
connotation is a regular word with me which is probably because I studied linguistics. There are words I use to be erudite (like this one), but connotation I consider a regular joe's type of vocabulary item.
denotation (what it means exactly)
connotation (what it evokes, connotes)