Name:	lucky67 -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/21/2017 3:07:13 PM

USA should withdraw & tell them to leave NY

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/21/2017 3:21:43 PM

I have another view.  We still hold a permanent seat and can veto any stupidity.  What we need to do is significantly reduce our funding of the UN and make others step up and pay their fair share.  Believe me, the enthusiasm for the UN will be greatly reduced by other countries if they actually had to pay for it.  And of course, we need to go our own way when it is in our best interests or those of our allies.  The UN has no say in where we put our embassey in any country.  It is up to us and the host country.  

Name:	Moldyoldy -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/21/2017 5:18:44 PM

I went on a visit to the U.N. in 2004 as part of an international military group. We received several briefings and got to see activity in the offices beyond the main hallways that tourists are restricted to. Imagine every stereotype you can think of about lazy and inefficient government employees. Now triple that impression. That is daily life in the un. I would speculate that 3 out of 4 jobs in the in are do nothing seat warmers. We were also treated to lunch in the executive dining room. The U.N. takes great pride in providing delegates the finest of foods from their native lands. In fact the food was very good, but it disgusted me to see my tax dollars being wasted on tongue, livers, prime meats and seafood for the corrupt and gluttonous delegates to gorge themselves on. It reminded me of a Roman food orgy. I wanted to ask the waiter where the vomitorium was, but professional discretion held my tongue. We would be well advised to cut our contributions to the un in half.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/21/2017 6:47:51 PM (updated 12/21/2017 6:57:09 PM)

A change I note with the Trump administration is that the US is acting in the US's best interest.  If it is not in our best interest then we should get the hell out, or as suggested elsewhere, stop subsidizing the good for nothings.  Heck, base dues on population. We would end up paying more than a lot but countries like China and India would lose their enthusiasm pretty quickly.

What a refreshing change.  Acting in OUR best interest.  Isn't that what our leaders are supposed to do?  Is that the part that Trump's predecessor didn't get?

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/21/2017 9:45:00 PM

I think people have forgotten what strong leadership looks like.  Trump doesn't always do it with as much grace as I wish, but he's definitely on the right tract.  

I guess I think the only good thing about the UN, is that it gives the US a forum to make the points we want to make, diplomatically.  But should we be footing the entire bill?  No.  

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/22/2017 12:12:43 PM

I have to say my admiration for Nikki Haley has gone up a lot.  My preferred choice for her position was John Bolton but I have to admit that I think she can say things that Bolton could not.  I saw a tweet from her where she listed the countries that stood with us on our exercising our sovern right to decide where we will put our embassy.  

Name:	Moldyoldy -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/22/2017 12:28:29 PM

If she plays her cards right she could be first female president.

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/22/2017 12:40:16 PM

She is a little squishy on social issues and I'm not sure she can get the nomination.  But she has definitely moved up in my list.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 1:28:06 PM

I actually have worked with John Bolton and believe me, he would have been a disaster.  If Trump is a bull in the china shop, then John Bolton would be a T-Rex in a china shop.  He needs to stay far, far away from positions of power.  Nicki Haley was defnitely a better choice.  

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/22/2017 1:36:12 PM

I predict that the first woman President will be someone like Nicky Haley.  She's smart and savy.  She doesn't have a ton of political baggage.  

Watched Nancy Pelosi on the news yesterday, comments about that Republicans didn't need Democrats votes to pass the Tax Legisation.  I see something fundamentally wrong and I think people like her are part of the problem.  She is old as dirt, despite all those facelifts, and she needs to go home.  She is totally unwilling to compromise on anything.  

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 1:47:01 PM

Yeah he is definitely a character.  I like him because he is an America first proponent.  But he has some definite baggage.  I just never thought Nikki Haley would be as bold as she has been or as effective.  But as I stated above, she has a rough road if she wants to run for President as some of her views on social issues will cause some opposition.  So while she might not be my first choice, depending of course on the other choices at the time she runs, I would not hesitate to vote for her.  We all know the Democrats will only nominate a left wing nut.

Name:	au67 -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 5:26:26 PM

Haley is the U.S. rep to the U.N., but she is also Trump's rep...that encourages boldness.  I think that boldness will surface somewhere down the line in Sessions.  The majority of the Republican party have finally decided to take the bold step of supporting Trump (tax reform)!  I anxiously await the new year and hope the bold confidence of the Republican party and the Trump administration will bury the Democrat party and bring to justice those responsible for attempting to destroy this country as founded.

Name:	lakngulf -	Reply
Subject:	U.N
Date:	12/22/2017 6:57:06 PM

Agree with you totally on Haley.  She seems sharp and not afraid to take a stance.

I do not like Bolton

Name:	lakngulf -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 7:01:25 PM

If Sessions does not become bold then he needs to get out of the way and let Trey Gowdy take over.  The Sessions recusal, and the takeover of the DOJ by Rosenstein has been a disaster.  I am ready for some folks to be held accountable.  If Trump or associates did something wrong, then let's have it and ferret it out.  If others have done wrong, then let's have that too.

Too much stonewalling in D.C.   Right and Wrong just don't exist there.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 7:23:28 PM

It's not that right and wrong doesn't exist there - but, as soon as there is a "wrong" people generally go into political spin trying to make it look not so bad.  And there are a lot of reasons that people want to downplay the wrong - Congressional hearings, the Washington Post, new Congressional oversite.  It's a complex psychology.  It's like the great lengths people will go to, to make the numbers look good.  If they start to show a downward trend, when there should be an uptick, the first thought is "how can we change the way we calculate it, to make it look better?"  And how will we justify the change in calculations.  And then there are "get well" plans, when they get off the rails, then there is a get well plan for the get well plan.  

It's a deeply embedded psychology.  No one wants anything bad to happen on their watch.  And even if someone stood up and said "I'll take accountablility", those around them will ensure that they don't get that chance.  There are no problems, there are no mistakes, there are only challenges.  In 32 years, I never saw it change and it is endemic in the thinking.  But it's not that people don't know right and wrong.  

You think it should change and it should, but one person alone can't do it.  Not even the President.

Name:	lakngulf -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 7:34:07 PM

It would seem to me an Attorney General who did not have his hands tied could make a dent.  But I hear what you are saying.  I am just simple and naiive enough to think folks should be held accountable, regardless of pollitical affliliation.  I have hopes that someone like Gowdy could get to the bottom of some of this, but he bombed on the Benghazi hearing.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 7:35:46 PM

Can'tblame it on Hound...or me any more either!

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	MM
Date:	12/22/2017 8:31:49 PM

I totally agree. Gowdy has the needed concern for the Constitution that has seriously eroded over the last eight years. Just when you think you have heard all the missteps that occurred during Obama's eight years in office, the encounter with Hezbollah comes to light. If "findings" substantiate what is being revealed at this time as being factual, it is appalling what harmful effects may have resulted from such action. Could the current opiod crisis be directly connected to the forthcoming findings on Hezbollah?