Mark Steyn: Blame the UN cheerleaders

The Australian ^ | July 26, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[aculeus]

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[headsonpikes]

At this juncture, there's not much left to say except "Farg the U.N!"

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Steyn

FMCDH(BITS)

[secretagent]

Sudan was elected to a three-year term on the UN Human Rights Commission. This isn't an aberration: Zimbabwe is also a member.

Time to get out

[Pokey78]

Thanks aculeus!

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UN is USeless

[Paul_B]

This hits me as one of his best columns. Difficult judgment to make, I know. Thank God for Mark's work.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

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Ping!

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There's an old, cynical formula for the prominence accorded different disasters by American editors. It runs something like: one dead American equals 10 dead Israelis equals 100 dead Russians equals 1000 dead Africans. But, to the average progressive columnist in the Western world, what matters is who killed you. 30,000 dead Sudanese don't equal one Iraqi prisoner being led around Abu Ghraib on a dog collar

Reminds me of the NAACP.

[jimfree]

This hits me as one of his best columns. Difficult judgment to make, I know. Thank God for Mark's work.

It's difficult to discriminate among relative expressions of genius. What Mark does so well here is trash bogus intentions for their lack of results. You would have liked to have saved that small child from the fire - but somebody else was willing to go in and you stopped him. Your merit should be zero or negative and that is what Mark is telling me.

[Ruth A.]

Dean on the money.

[Defiant]

Thanks for the ping to a full Steyn of cheer.

[metesky]

bttt

[George W. Bush]

Zimbabwe and Sudan on the U.N. Human Rights Commission? Joining Libya to lecture us all?

Just add Castro and Kim Il Crazy-Nukes and the Muslims and you'll have a perfect mockery of any meaningful notion of human rights.

And we actually spend money on this thing?

[happygrl]

The genocide in the Sudan has already happened.

It , too, was on Clinton's watch.

Upwards of one million (some say two million) Black Christian/Animist Sudanese were killed during the 90s.

Once again, the world only pays attention if the dying is done by non-Christians. In this case, it is Muslims killing Muslims, only their color is different.

Where are the calls in the Muslim world to stop this atrocity ?

[happygrl]

American Heritage interviews Ralph Peters: You’ve argued that nineteenth-century concepts of international relations may be outmoded. In fact, aren’t you pretty skeptical about national sovereignty, international organizations, and international law?

The idea of absolute state sovereignty is relatively new, and it derives from agreements among kings, emperors, kaisers, and czars for their mutual benefit. What we’re left with from the state making of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe is a legacy that tells us we cannot intervene in states as they slaughter their own citizens because they’re sovereign. By that logic, Hitler would have been perfectly legitimate as long as he killed only German Jews. It’s patently flawed logic. Any state that benefits only a dictatorship, oligarchy, or clique, that oppresses, brutalizes, and even massacres elements of its own citizenry, has no legitimate claim on sovereignty—period. Sovereignty is fine for contemporary Japan, the European states, or, for that matter, India. Mexico is now coming along and trying very hard. But states like Iraq, Milosevi«c’s Yugoslavia, and a number of African thugocracies have no legitimate claim on sovereignty.

http://www.americanheritage.com/xml/2003/1/2003_1_feat_0.xml

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bump.

[Akira]