Executive Memorandum posted February 9, 1996 by Thomas Sheehy
The U.N. Tax: Not Now, Not Ever
United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali wants to
give the U.N. the authority to tax Americans and others around the
world. In expressing frustration over the perilous state of his
organization's finances, the U.N. chief made known his support for
U.N. taxes during a January lecture and follow-up media discussion
at Oxford University. Soon afterwards,…
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Executive Memorandum posted October 20, 1995 by Thomas Sheehy
The U.N.'s 50th Anniversary: Time For Reform, Not Celebration
The Clinton Administration and many other governments worldwide
have been turning up the rhetoric for the United Nations' 50th
anniversary. The celebration is set to culminate early next week
when most heads of state, including President Bill Clinton, address
the U.N. General Assembly. Amid all the standard accolades for the
U.N., the President is bound…
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Executive Memorandum posted June 9, 1995 by Thomas Sheehy
The U.N. at Fifty: No Key to Peace
President Bill Clinton will be in San Francisco on June 26 to
participate in the 50th anniversary celebration of the signing of
the United Nations Charter. It was in June of 1945 that war-weary
America took the lead in founding the U.N., harboring high hopes
that it would become a major force in advancing…
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Executive Memorandum posted June 7, 1995 by Thomas Sheehy
Clinton Blows Smoke Over Foreign Aid Cuts
The U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) and its
allies are pulling out all the stops in their fight against
congressional foreign aid cuts and the reorganization of the
foreign policy bureaucracy. AID Administrator Brian Atwood and
other Clinton Administration officials have resorted to tagging as
"isolationists" those critical of the status quo, including
supporters of…
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Executive Memorandum posted January 27, 1995 by Thomas Sheehy
Stay Out of UNESCO
The Clinton Administration is weighing a U.S. return to the
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO). Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott wrote last
December that a return to UNESCO, from which the U.S. withdrew in
1984, "remains high on our agenda." Rejoining UNESCO, however,
would be a serious mistake. UNESCO is poorly…
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Backgrounder Update posted September 27, 1993 by Thomas Sheehy
Time to Pull Out of Somalia
(Archived document, may contain errors) 9/27/93 202 'TIME TO PULL OUT OF SOMALIA (Updating Backgrounder No. 922, "To Save the Starving, Internationalize the Peacekeeping Force in Somalia," December 15, 1992) Operation Restore Hope, George Bush's well-intentioned mission to relieve…
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Executive Memorandum posted August 16, 1993 by Thomas Sheehy
A U.N. Army: Unwise, Unsafe, and Unnecessary
A campaign is underway in Congress to endorse the concept of a
standing army controlled by the United Nations. Senator Joe Biden,
the Democrat from Delaware, has introduced a resolution (S.J. Res.
112) to allow American troops to be part of such a force. He claims
that the United States must abandon "the vainglorious…
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Backgrounder posted December 15, 1992 by Thomas Sheehy
To Save the Starving, Internationalize the Peacekeeping Force inSomalia
Introduction
For the first time in American history, United States troops
have been committed to a military operation for a cause completely
unrelated to protecting the national interest. Many Americans,
understandably, are ambivalent about Operation Restore Hope, as the
United Nations-authorized Somalia intervention is called. Their
hearts go out to the famine-stricken people of Somalia, but…
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