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Why the UN is worse than useless, from Arnold Beichman in the Washington Times:
I simply cannot understand why President Bush keeps appealing to United Nations for its help and cooperation when that institution has proven itself to be incapable of doing anything significant in the field of human rights let alone international terrorism. Nor can I understand why Secretary of State Colin Powell has called the U.N. a "Coalition partner" when it is at best a sneering onlooker.I base this judgment on a long dead-letter U.N. resolution dated Dec. 9, 1994, passed by the General Assembly almost a decade ago, about which little is heard. In fact, few people even know it exists. And why should they, since the resolution died the day it passed?
To discuss this resolution is to prove beyond a shadow of doubt the U.N. is a fraud, a betrayer of our hopes to establish a rule of law among nations. This 10-year-old resolution, titled "Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism," passed with no opposition. And a fat lot of good it did.
The 1994 resolution text begins with this laudable preamble:
"Having considered in depth the question of measures to eliminate international terrorism, [and] convinced that the adoption of the Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism should contribute to the enhancement of the struggle against international terrorism. ... "
Were such a resolution presented once again to the U.N. Sixth Committee, I doubt it would ever be considered. The rot is deep in the U.N. General Assembly. How deep? Mark these words of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan as late as Feb. 24, 1998: "Can I trust Saddam Hussein? I think I can do business with him." Mr. Annan was bestowing his confidence on a dictator whose genocidal practices were well-known, a dictator who poison-gassed 5,000 Iraqis in Halabja in 1991.
The 1994 U.N. resolution demands that member states "take all appropriate measures at the national and international levels to eliminate terrorism." Appended to the resolution is the "Declaration on Measures to Eliminate International Terrorism."
Congress ought to appoint a special committee to find out why the U.N. has ignored its own resolution and why it has failed to fulfill what its own General Assembly demanded of the Secretariat.
The U.N. resolution said the General Assembly was "deeply disturbed by the worldwide persistence of acts of international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations ... which endanger or take innocent lives." The GA, it said, was "firmly determined to eliminate international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations [and] that those responsible for acts of international terrorism must be brought to justice."
Mark those words: There is no justification, said the U.N., for international terrorism — that is taking the lives of innocent people as at the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, or in Madrid on March 11, 2004. Terrorism is terrorism regardless of political slogans or issues, said yesterday's United Nations.
If Kofi Annan and the U.N. Security Council are serious about combating terrorism, they should immediately call a special General Assembly session to renew the General Assembly Declaration of 1994. Were this resolution in effect today, the Coalition forces in Iraq would have the legitimating support of the U.N. just as the United States had in 1950 when it almost single-handed rescued South Korea from being swallowed up by the military dictatorship of North Korea's Kim Il-sung.
Posted by Robert at April 20, 2004 10:24 AM
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This is what Jesus Christ has to say:
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Matthew 7:17-20
Posted by: ted at April 20, 2004 11:11 AM
Ted, your verse sure fits Islam as well as the UN. Know them by their fruits.
Firstly, we all know the UN was created to help and justify Jewish occupation of Muslim lands. Secondly, in the little time I have been aware of the news. I have never seen the UN's competence brought to question until they appointed this self hating infidel Ghanaian. Does anybody smell racism here?
Posted by: Hood Jihadi at April 20, 2004 7:17 PMUN = UN AMERICAN
Posted by: BG, RET at April 20, 2004 7:48 PMThe rot in the UN generally dates from the mid-1970s, when the PLO - with the assistance of its cronies of the Arab League, the Soviet Bloc and the "Non-aligned Movement" - bullied and blackmailed its way into that institution.
Since then the PLO has stacked every organ, agency and instrumentality there, at every level, with its representatives (under a tragically-skewed form of "affirmative action" that's practised inside the UN), enjoying in those posts the prerogatives of a full Member, although "Palestine" is not a sovereign state.
Needless to say, these "Palestinians" totally pervading the UN's byzantine bureaucracy, have seen to it that there's no deviation from their genocidal agenda against Israel and that the international interests of their partners-in-crime in the Arab/Moslem sphere are being nicely served as well.
The habitual means that this group (the 55-strong Organization of Islamic Conferences plus its rag-bag of Third World dictatorships and their running-dogs - the biggest single voting-bloc in the UN) uses to attain its domination are traditional: co-opting, compromising and corrupting the UN and its Members to the maximum possible extent.
Posted by: HG at April 20, 2004 9:19 PMAs to the "War on Terror", the pro-Islamo-fascist bloc in the UN has made it its top priority to stymie the Body from ever arriving at a functional definition of "terrorism", the first baby-step in tackling this blight.
Posted by: HG at April 20, 2004 9:43 PMActually, I believe the UN was started for the noble reason of preventing the rise of another Hitler to power. Sadly, it has devolved into a despicable corrupt institution, whose only job is to create reams of useless paper - UN resolutions - while bloating itself off the corrupt proceeds of governments like Saddam's Iraq: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/SpecialArticle.asp?article=A11705017_1 . The UN has nothing to say to us about anything - especially about ethics and morals. They are so corrupt that I fail to understand why anyone would bother to even try talking to them.
Posted by: paula at April 23, 2004 5:22 AM
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