The Prince of Peace

From 1983 :

When the United Nations committee met to review the situation, the Soviet delegate, Igor I. Yakovlev, said the ban on landing “raises the question of whether the United Nations should be in the United States.” The American delegate Charles Lichenstein replied that if member states felt “they are not being treated with the hostly consideration that is their due,” they should consider “removing themselves and this organization from the soil of the United States. We will put no impediment in your way,” he continued. “The members of the U.S. mission to the United Nations will be down at the dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset.”

Rightfromthestart (View Comment):

From 1983 :

When the United Nations committee met to review the situation, the Soviet delegate, Igor I. Yakovlev, said the ban on landing “raises the question of whether the United Nations should be in the United States.” The American delegate Charles Lichenstein replied that if member states felt “they are not being treated with the hostly consideration that is their due,” they should consider “removing themselves and this organization from the soil of the United States. We will put no impediment in your way,” he continued. “The members of the U.S. mission to the United Nations will be down at the dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset.”

I got to know Charles Lichenstein a bit in the mid-1990s; wonderful guy. And the irony also is that Yakovlev ended up being one of Gorbachev's subversives a few years later, realizing that the Communist Party stranglehold on Russian government needed to be smashed somehow. Easier said than done, and he (and Gorby) were lucky a Stalinist remnant didn't kill them both.

"Gesticulate like an electrified Italian". That's what my rabid Democrat brother-in-law does when he tries to explain why more government force is good. It would be amusing, but the problem is he's so smart that it's pathetic.

Rightfromthestart (View Comment):

From 1983 :

When the United Nations committee met to review the situation, the Soviet delegate, Igor I. Yakovlev, said the ban on landing “raises the question of whether the United Nations should be in the United States.” The American delegate Charles Lichenstein replied that if member states felt “they are not being treated with the hostly consideration that is their due,” they should consider “removing themselves and this organization from the soil of the United States. We will put no impediment in your way,” he continued. “The members of the U.S. mission to the United Nations will be down at the dockside waving you a fond farewell as you sail off into the sunset.”

Steven Hayward (View Comment):

I got to know Charles Lichenstein a bit in the mid-1990s; wonderful guy. And the irony also is that Yakovlev ended up being one of Gorbachev’s subversives a few years later, realizing that the Communist Party stranglehold on Russian government needed to be smashed somehow. Easier said than done, and he (and Gorby) were lucky a Stalinist remnant didn’t kill them both.

Wow!

National Review has published articles, notably by Andrew McCarthy, on why indicting Comey was a self-defeating mistake. Though having great respect for Andrew McCarthy's fine legal mind, I somehow wanted to think otherwise, even as I knew better. But then John Yoo scored a touchdown, as it were...

The dual citizenship issue makes me wince, as I myself fall into that category, while being obliged to admit that it is indeed problematic. Charlie Cooke once again offers a most illuminating perspective.