Comments for Natural Law and the Present Turmoil at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 03:12:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/natural-law-and-the-present-turmoil.html#comment-13666 Can Prof. Wood name a recent success arising from UN institutions? It seems to me that when the going gets tough the UN gets out. It was true in Iraq, Rwanda, Uganda, the Congo, South Sudan (the nightmare before the Darfur nightmare), Biafra, Zimbabwe... Then there is the corruption of UN Peacekeeping Forces. Even today, the Nigerians are fear and reviled, even by leftist commentators. Rape, abduction, murder, molestation of children... Then there is the UN's obsession with sex -- especially among the young. And it is an international promoter of abortion, same-sex marriage. I'm assuming here that Prof. Wood is Catholic. And I'm sorry Prof. Wood but the term "world governance" will never sound reassuring to those of us who come from liberty-loving cultures and subcultures of the English-speaking world. American and British forces kept other less restrained nuclear powers in line but are now being discouraged an disarmed from continuing to do so. At ground level it was American Marines in Liberia, and Royal Marines in Sierra Leone who ended major violence in those countries-in-name-only. As for WHO: millions died because of crank science that won't allow the moderate use of pesticides to end malaria, West Nile etc. In Michigan alone this year 10 people have died of West Nile virus and the elderly and children are being advised to slather on insect-repellant when we should be spraying. How many more people will die because this so-called international benevolent association because the accountability demanded of small children isn't required of the UN. I knew higher education was in trouble - I experienced it myself - but is this sort of blind optimism still be taught in places like the Kennedy School of Government? How many more people have to die, get sick, get AIDS, be macheted or machine gunned, raped, starved to death before we stop funding the Turtle Bay Little Dictators Club in Manhattan. Meanhwile on a "smaller scale" the UK is complaining that their aid money is being mispent by that bungling giant, the EU. Isn't even a minimum of competence required before handing over hundreds of billions more? People are struggling right here in America, in Britain and other cash cows for the UN and its handmaidens. I will tell the Prof. Wood what I do believe in: the US Navy and the Marines and the floating real estate that is necessary to keep a semblance of order in the world. If Britain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Singapore and others want to join in great. It might even become something like a true international organization of accountable nations. That isn't what the UN is now. That the Vatican continues to participate in this obscene secular liturgy called the General Assembly is depressing. - Graham Combs Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:45:34 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/natural-law-and-the-present-turmoil.html#comment-13661 Joe, I don't believe Russia is any kind of threat to the U.S. Russia may compete with us, may hobble our own goals here and there, but is hardly any kind of existential threat. At the same time Russia is a close collaborator of ours at the UN and elsewhere on life and family issues. - Austin Ruse Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:11:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/natural-law-and-the-present-turmoil.html#comment-13658 Mr Wood, Thanks you truly summarized it all! I see all you wrote as the reasons for change.I encourage everyone to go to the EWTN site and down load the "Novena" for our nation.We need prayer today more than ever,thanks for a great read. Jack - Jack,CT Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:27:04 +0100