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The Us Should Withdraw From The Un

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Sierra Susko
Professor Cheney
ENC 1101 – Essay #5
November 30, 2015

The US Should Withdraw From the UN Final Outline
I. Background
A. History
B. Current situation

II. Unfulfilled charter
A. World peace 1. Bosnian massacre 2. Somalia 3. Rwanda
B. Human rights 1. Membership nations 2. Abuses

III. Overburdensome cost
A. Percentage paid by US
B. Financial stewardship
C. Membership corruption

IV Sovereign rights
A. Membership requirements
B. Treaties
1. US Constitution
2. UN Charter
3. Washington’s farewell
C. Competing interests

V. Global community
A. Decreased influence
B. Fallacious argument

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: To prove that the United States should withdraw from the United Nations

The time has come to recognize the U.N. for the anti-American, anti-freedom organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the U.N. to find a headquarters location outside the United States that is more in keeping with the philosophy of the majority of voting members, someplace like Moscow or Peking (Rousos, par. 30).
Those are the words of Barry Goldwater, the late 1964 presidential candidate and Republican Senator from Arizona, calling for US withdrawal from the United Nations, and these concerns are as valid today as they were almost four decades ago, if not more so. Since its inception, the United Nation’s purpose and benefits have been

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