Hurrah for the UN!

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2005)

I live in Boise, Idaho, where the U.N. isn't the most popular organization around. (What is? Why, the N.R.A. of course. One of our U.S. Senators, re-elected w/o a Dem opponent last Nov., is actually on the national board of the N.R.A., but doesn't see this as a conflict of interest. My, wouldn't the N.R.A. have had a ball in Rwanda in the 1990's? But I digress.) Every Oct. 23 (U.N. Day) we hang up our U.N. flag (purchased at the U.N. in New York in 2002) & wait for comments one way or the other. So far we have been ignored, but I hope if a few more Boiseans see this movie, where the U.N. is the only force for peace, progress & stability in a scene of total physical & moral chaos, it will convince them that the U.N. is indeed doing the job that no other organization will do. Along w/ the U.N. colonel, who is a hero of the movie, a young Red Cross worker (refreshingly portrayed as not dazzlingly pretty & not at all made-up) is a heroine. So let's hear it also for the International Red Cross! And let's hope both the U.N. & the Red Cross are taking action to end the current carnage in Darfur, because now that Colin Powell is gone, I doubt anyone in the U.S. gov't is paying attention.