If We can't or won't pay Our UN dues and NATO is a Farce WHY Should We 9the World desire or need another ineffectual feel good bureacracy?

I like this. The UN founded after WW2 was done in a "Pragmatic" sense, and with the USSR admitted, got a Communist dictatorship in the door (Stalin.) Democratic alliances are around, NATO, OAS, ASEAN, etc. in Europe, South America, Asia etc., but a world organization of Democracies sounds like a very good idea. The brotherhood (and sisterhood) of hope. I like it. Sort of like the Interstellar Alliance on Babylon Five, an organization of good guys :)

Also it goes back in roots even to Theodore Roosevelt, who thought up a league of benevolent nations type deal even before World War One. McCain, as a maverick and a Republican, definitely admires Theodore Roosevelt. It could also help nations like Taiwan and Israel that have trouble with the dictators in the UN (In Taiwan's case, not sure they are even in the UN) get recognition and closer ties with other democracies. It's a good idea.

League of Democracies? What a perfect idea to further polarize the world. Then many of the Arab states could join with China and the other half of the world to form the League of Non-Democracies.

I believe that a democratic government is the best form of government but I shudder every time I hear Pres Bush Jr. talking about spreading it as though it were peanut butter. It is not our place to do this. Each country has its own dynamics. I predict that in 20 years from now if there is still an Iraq, they will not be praising us for our intervention and it will not have a democratic government.

I'm for it if it will get us out of the lousy UN. McCain is on the right track and has been doing and saying the right things lately.

Good proposal but then how do we define Democracies?
The Lincoln Gettysberg Address description of a Democracy may be difficult as in International relations, there are no permanent friends but only permanent interests just as Politics makes strange bed fellows!Strengthening the UNITED NATIONS may be a better solution to combat terrorism.

Okay then let's talk about

1. Rezko
 Sen. Obama wrote letters to city and state officials urging them to fund a Davis-Rezko housing project.  Rezko contributed millions to the Obama campaign, yet Obama only returned $85,000. Why didn't he return all the money.

2.  Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Rashid Khalidi, a known terrorist sympathizer. Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is best known as the professor who invited Iranian President Ahmedinejad to visit Columbia University after he finished his speech at the United Nations. According to confidential sources, Khalidi has direct ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), a group on the US State Department's list of known terrorist groups.
William Ayers was also major fundraiser for Obama and they both sat on the board of The Woods Fund. In 2002, Obama participated in awarding grants through The Woods Fund, including a $70,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-based group founded by Rashid and Mona Khalidi.

 

In another suspected quid pro quo arrangement similar to those with Ayers and Davis-Rezko, Rashid Khalidi also held a fundraising event in his home for Barack Obama.

In the Middle East, Rashid Khalidi was known as a man to be reckoned with. From 1972 through 1983, Khalidi was the director in Beirut of the official Palestinian press agency, FAFA.
 According to sources, when the Khalidi's left Chicago for Columbia University in New York, Rashid was honored with the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at that Ivy League university. Their goodbye party in Chicago included testimonials from Bill Ayers and Barack Obama.
"If he was to be President, how much would he look the other way when dealing with national security and dangers to our country? How much would he listen passively to terrorist leaders then lecture us on our ugly American status? This kind of change is not what our country needs!"

League of Democracies (Holy Woodrow Wilson!), subordinating the interests of the United States to pandering for the approval of old Europe (cue the applause from France & Germany), a plan to attack global warming so we can 'save the planet for our grandchildren' (ripped from the Dem play book).

It's really too bad the Republican party won't have an authentic Republican as its nominee this year.

DONT FORGET RON PAUL IS STILL IN THE RACE..WHY ARE YOU AFRAID TO MENTION HIM..
???SAY HIS NAME ONCE..IT WILL GROW ON YOU  RON PAUL   RON PAUL
NOW ITS YOUR TURN
  ED PAINTER

Educate yourselves. This is what you will get with McWar.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_frontlinebrbushswar_2008-03-26

John just wants to be able to put on a super hero outfit and lead the “League of Democracies” in Truth, Justice, and the American Way!!!!  I can see him making swooshing noises around the meeting room with his cape trailing behind him from the slight breeze he creates while swooshing, singing "bomb,bomb,bomb, bomb,bomb Iran".  

Someone needs to tell grandpa to get back on his meds.  The policies of Bush are failed ones, and no amount of swooshing around in his super hero outfit at the “League of Democracies” is going to make it better.

Great, now we can expect big government to create a new hole to throw money into. How about supporting the United Nations fully, keeping our treaties with other nations rather than running around nilly willy creating new alliances. The United Nations has the framework and participation to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The United Nations Environmental Program is in place to reveal the science and studies that have been underway for some 40 years now. Just how interesting creating new negotiations might be is questionable, sounds like a divorce strategy to keep from taking any responcibility for our pass misuse of the existing alliances.

The league of democracies idea sounds insane to me.  How can we communicate effectively in the global community if we ignore whomever John McCain doesn't like.  

At this dangerous juncture in history, it seems like it's more important than ever that we not split off into groups of nations who exclude one another.  

When I hear McCain talk about which countries he'll include and exclude, it sounds about as childish as a little boys' club house.  

Bad Idea. Period.

http://thegreatamericablog.blogspot.com/

That's neat! Will we be allowed to join? I'm sure that whole democracy thing could be waived for us right?

I'm pleased to see that John McCain now agrees with Barack Obama that the US should use diplomacy first and war as a last resort in US foreign policy.  Unfortunately, since Senator McCain is of the country’s biggest hawks, it’s too little too late. Senator McCain should consider that the interests of the American people have been betrayed also—by a government that lied to the American people to gain support for the US invasion of Iraq, and which continues to pour America’s economic future into the abyss, rather than admit they were wrong.  Is the "betrayal" that he calls the US withdrawal from Iraq any greater than the betrayal of the American people for staying? Whose side is he on?

McCain seems to love retread ideas.  This League he talks about sure sounds like the League of Nations which existed from 1912-1920 with the avowed purpose of ensuring that a repeat of the World War (it wasn't called WW I yet) didn't happen.  Obviously it was a complete failure as we know from WW II.

The idea that an aging warrior from a long line of warriors is the right person to lead the US forward is  simply wrong.  A man who is best known for being tortured in Vietnam is hardly the person we need for moving into the future.

This is why we already have the United Nations. To create an entity including only your best friends, as yet another world bureaucracy makes a great soundbite, but in the end, only adds another diplomatic filter to negotiate. We don't need more "us against them" approaches creating further division (or perceptions of division).

Before anybody starts pondering new free trade agreements with Europe, wealth being diverted away from transitioning our economy and infrastructure to energy independence needs to be stopped (i.e., throwing billions into the occupation of Iraq). In the end, you can't have any economic discussion about anything without bringing up the Iraqi elephant in the room and how it effects what we can and can not do economically due to it. It's called Economic Realism -- and McCain's positions indicate he is incapable of delivering on the concept.

I currently support and will continue to support Obama, but a league of Democracies is the way to go.  But what about when the League of Democracies disagrees with our Iraq policy and disagrees when McCain "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. Bomb, Bombs Iran"

I can remember the present republican president's idea of using our global alliances to extend the democratic process.  McCain supported this war,we do not need another president trying to force our values on others. How many deaths does the world need before we say enough.  Iran has an elected goverment does McCain want another regime change?  

The US is slipping into the role of a third world country. Our military is being abused while our infrastructure at home is crumbling. Billions of dollars are being wasted in foreign countries. When the fall happens, just watch the rich creeps who pillaged and raped this country disappear to live in Dubai or South America.

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