After Paul Martin's (PM the PM) regrettable speech to the UN the other day, it seems like a good time to think about what the UN is and who runs it. Fortunately we have Victor Davis Hanson writing about just that in the Wall Street Journal today:
the U.N. is not the idealistic postwar organization of our collective Unicef and Unesco nostalgia, the old perpetual force for good that we once associated with hunger relief and peacekeeping. Its membership is instead rife with tyrannies, theocracies and Stalinist regimes. Many of them, like Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam and Zimbabwe, have served on the U.N.'s 53-member Commission on Human Rights. The Libyan lunocracy--infamous for its dirty war with Chad and cash bounties to mass murderers--chaired the 2003 session. For Mr. Bush to talk to such folk about the need to spread liberty means removing from power, or indeed jailing, many of the oppressors sitting in his audience. ... the present secretary-general, Kofi Annan, is himself a symbol of all that is wrong with the U.N. ... he enjoys the freedom, affluence and security of a New York, but never stops to ask why that is so or how it might be extended to others less fortunate.After September 11, 2001, Hanson concludes:
Deeds, not rhetoric, are all that matter, as the once unthinkable is now the possible. There is no intrinsic reason why the U.N. should be based in New York rather than in its more logical utopian home in Brussels or Geneva. There is no law chiseled in stone that says any fascist or dictatorial state deserves authorized membership by virtue of its hijacking of a government. There is no logic to why a France is on the Security Council, but a Japan or India is not. And there is no reason why a group of democratic nations, unapologetic about their values and resolute to protect freedom, cannot act collectively for the common good, entirely indifferent to Syria's censure or a Chinese veto.PM the PM thinks the UN ought to be entitled to to take arms against states that harm their own people. He has things like Sudan in mind. He forgets who he is talking to. He does not see that this group would quickly find a pretext for destroying Israel (using the so called "real terrorist" crap they love so much), and having done that, who knows what might be next. Maybe they'll "liberate" Quebec. Tyrannies, theocracies and Stalinist regimes don't respond nicely when you give them something. They see it only as weakness. If you give them a finger they will rip off your arm and beat you to death with it, if they don't enslave you first. PM the PM. God help us all. A real statesman would see that now is the time to look for partnerships with like minded people. An Anglo Alliance would go a long ways - the US, England, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, these are our natural allies. Lets stop pretending that most of the things we love about Canada don't come from those cultures, from those people. There is nothing wrong with newcomers to Canada, my own family included, but the newcomers come here because they see something they think is valuable. They don't come here, for heaven's sake, so that they can endure a trial under Sharia law. It's about time we valued the things that bring people here ourselves. Read more at Taylor and Co.
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