Hi!
If the UN was to leave New York City tonight, it would have little or no effect on one single American.
Are you sure? Not a single American?
They could move that farce to Madrid, Paris, or take it to h--l as far as we are concerned, and no American would miss it.
In fact, the UN Facilities in NYC are probably the most famous ones; however, we do have UN Headquarters in Vienna (European Union) and as far as I'm concerned I've never heard any complaints about it.
http://www.unvienna.org It is true tha the US pays for 22% of the UN Budget; It's also true that the US founded the UN after WWII and that it helped it to avoid Communism from spreading during the Cold War.
It is also true that the UN has been considered a huge advance in international policy as well as being one of the most powerful weaopns of Propaganda ever. It's been criticised by the USSR, China, some Arab nations including Irak and Iran, and lately the US Government. I find it contradictory, but I must admit that it hasn't dealt some issues properly in the last decade.
With regard to the EU constitution I'd like to say a couple of things. First, I voted Yes because I think that it's an important step for the EU. I know it's not as serious at it seems but I think that any law can be changed or improved at any time so why not changing the constitution if we don't like it now, or in 50 years.
The Spanish constitution (30 million people when it was written) has in comparison somehow a similar percentage of pages because we take into account both amendments and annexed articles. The EU "beta" (450 million people)
follows the same pattern. Now, I'm not a lawyer but I know that no loophole is valid within a constitution since it's a "Carta Magna" List of Rights and Musts (I'm not sure if I'm using the correct terms, sorry about that), so what we would have to analyse is not the constitution but the law itself.
I do love my country and my meta-country too, the EU
. And I think we're doing pretty well with the union process. Since the Roman Empire there has been nothing but wars and several tries to rejoin Europe unsuccesfully but now we've got another opportunity.