What To Do About the UN

In bare arithmetic, the 70-22 vote by which the Senate agreed to bail out the UN looks like an “overwhelming vote of confidence” in the UN itself and the Administration’s UN policy. Examined in context, it is about as close to a repudiation of both as could realistically be expected at this stage.

Consider. In 1945 the Senate ratified the UN Charter 89-2. Two survivors of the extinct isolationist species, Senators Langer and Ship-stead, voted the lonely No’s. The percentage shift is of impressive proportions.

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In bare arithmetic, the 70-22 vote by which the Senate agreed to bail out the UN looks like an “overwhelming vote of confidence” in the UN itself and the Administration’s UN policy. Examined in context, it is about as close to a repudiation of both as could realistically be expected at this stage.

Consider. In 1945 the Senate ratified the UN Charter 89-2. Two survivors of the extinct isolationist species, Senators Langer and Ship-stead, voted the lonely No’s. The percentage shift is of impressive proportions.