Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Friday, April 04, 2003 :::
Does anyone have any sense of how "permanent" the creators of the U.N. expected the permanent members of the Security Council to be? Surely it would occur to them that at some point Germany might seem as plausible a member as France, and that over generations the world would change in general. In fact, in reality, two of the members have changed since it was originally constituted, though in theory they kind of haven't. (The regimes represented have changed; the nations represented have not.)