Thomas L. Friedman, in the New York Times Online (registration required), has an op-ed piece telling why he thinks France should be bumped off of the UN Security Council and be replaced by India. He has some good points.
Why replace France with India? Because India is the world’s biggest democracy, the world’s largest Hindu nation and the world’s second-largest Muslim nation, and, quite frankly, India is just so much more serious than France these days.
With France and Germany’s latest plan for avoiding a war with Iraq, I have to agree with him. India is so much more serious than France these days. Continuing to allow France veto power on the UN Security Council instead of recognizing the reodering of the world is just archaic and one of the reasons that the UN continues to be ineffective in world matters.
The one thing that really chaffe’s me is the insistance by so many people that the US wants to go to war over oil, which may well be true, but these same people seem to ignore the fact that a war could well be avoided if France would put its oil interest behind it and support a tough stance against Iraq.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
