[lbo-talk] Chomsky now at No. 1 on Amazon, No. 2 at Barnes & Nobl

[Chuck]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> On Sep 22, 2006, at 5:41 PM, Chuck wrote:
> 
>> No, certainly not Americans, who see the U.N. as the joke that it is.


> Actually, Americans profess to like the UN, or at least the idea of  it. 
> They say it's doing a bad job in recent years - which is hard to  argue 
> with - but think it should play a big role in world affairs.  26% said a 
> "leading role," and 42% a "major role" in a Feb 2006  Gallup poll. Just 
> 1% said it should not exist. Even 2/3 of those who  say it's doing a bad 
> job think it should play an important role.

Right. But you can still see it as a joke even if you support it to some 
degree.

I'm sorry to hear that outright hostility to the existence of the U.N. 
is so low. I guess we anarchists have an uphill climb to get people to 
reject the United Nations.

Chuck