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July 10, 2005
OK, That's It!
So I found Pat Sajak's opinion columns on his web page - I don't even remember who pointed me in that direction. But after reading a few of them, I'm hooked, and Pat Sajak goes into the sidebar. Here is a taste, in conclusion to a modest proposal for having the UN headquarters rotate locations every few years:
The fairest system would be to go alphabetically. That means Afghanistan would have the first chance to be the new host. There would be some embarrassment, I suppose, given the U.N.’s opposition to the United States’ ousting of the Taliban, resulting in free elections in that country. And I’m not sure the Kabul Restaurant Association is quite ready for the expensive and varied tastes of the delegates, though they’ll have a few years to prepare.The next two hosts, Albania and Algeria, provide their own unique sets of challenges. My guess is that, given the current leadership in those countries, at least the delegates would be more likely to pay their parking fines.
It would be sad to see the U.N. moving out of the United States in 2008. But take heart. Depending on how many countries want to host the organization in the meantime, it could be back in just a few hundred years. Alphabetically, that would place us right after the United Arab Emirates.
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