Critic Likens GOP’s Attempts to Force UN Reform to Deadly Suicide Bombing

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Critic Likens GOP’s Attempts to Force UN Reform to Deadly Suicide Bombing

The total U.S. contribution to the United Nations in fiscal year 2010 was $7.69 billion

Wednesday, August 31, 2011
By Patrick Goodenough

(CNSNews.com) – A House Republican bill aimed at driving United Nations reform by withholding U.S. funds is part of “an even more destructive assault” on the world body than Friday’s suicide bombing of a U.N. building in Nigeria, a critic of the initiative said.

“Islamist extremists’ hostility to the United Nations is well known,” said Jeffrey Laurenti, senior fellow at the liberal Century Foundation, in a blog post. “Osama bin Laden famously reviled it as ‘nothing but a tool of crime’ that ‘surrendered the land of Muslims [Palestine] to the Jews’ and works hand-in-glove with the United States in places like Afghanistan.”

“But the United Nations is now at risk from an even more destructive assault – from conservative fundamentalists now in power in the U.S. Congress,” he continued.

Laurenti was likening last Friday’s suicide bombing at U.N. headquarters in Abuja, which killed 23 people, with congressional Republican initiatives targeting funding to the U.N.

He cited in particular the U.N. Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act, introduced on Tuesday by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who said the bill aimed at ending “the era of no-strings-attached contributions” to the world body.

Get us the hell out of the damned UN, and then immediately bulldoze it into the sea!

What a maroon

[Rugnuts]

no need to bulldoze it after we walk. they wont have anything left.

[DumbAss Tanker]

More bullshit hyperbole from the Left, at least Comrade Lavrentii didn't call the GOP "Nazis" or "Rapists of the Motherland."

Comrade, let me explain the difference:  no other country can step in to restore lives lost in the bombing; in the case of the US withholding its funds, there is still the opportunity for China, the EU, or the OPEC countries, among many others, to step up and fully shoulder the burden we have disproportionately carried for them for so long.