What do you say about the other 160 members of the United Nations? What about Latin American states? or African states? or Asian states? [...]
Let me ask you something: Is the UN some sort of Alien Colonial Council? Did they get sent to earth from above, just appeared over the sky? Or was it established by Americans, established IN America, funded BY Americans, and largely STAFFED BY AMERICANS? You have to give your government some credit where its due. Like basically all international institutions, the UN is run by those who fund it, and the biggest 'funder' is the US. The US has a permanent seat in the Security Council, and can veto whatever it likes. [ADDITION: UNLIKE ANY MUSLIM STATE] If the US does not approve of something going on at the UN, it just turns it into a debating society, as Colin Powell so poetically put it. [...]
Well, and who have been some of those dictators? Somoza? Hussein? Pinochet? Suharto? The Saudi Royal Dictatorship? Are those the dictators you're speaking of? Or are you only speaking of those that haven't been backed, supported, and funded by the United States? [...]
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, there are perfectly functioning democracies in the Third World, [...] You don't have a monopoly on "freedom" and "democracy"; nor should you have a monopoly on dialogue. No, sir, if there's any thuggery going on it's certainly not by the irrelevant foreign ministers at the GA, but by the military-appointed "security experts" that head the delegations of the great powers.