Posted on 11/27/2007 8:42:23 AM PST by bs9021
Is the United Nations A Symbol of False Hope?
by: Emmanuel Opati, November 27, 2007
The United Nations has come under criticism for lack of actions to avert genocides during the last decade, raising questions as to whether it is complicit with evil.
It was said that the UN Secretariat staff who portray themselves as impartial civil servants waiting for instructions from the Security Council have largely undermined the core rationale for its establishment.
The preamble of United Nations Charter states that the UN is “determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.” During the last decade, the UN observed the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994, the Srebrenica Massacre in Bosnia in 1995 and now in Darfur.
Presenting his book Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide at the Heritage Foundation, Adam LeBor, author and journalist, said that because of its obsession with neutrality, the UN failed to act to stop the genocide by the Hutu government in 1994 in Rwanda and Slobodan Milosevic’s government against Srebrenica Massacre in 1995. By not acting to help the victims, the UN became a de facto ally of those carrying out the atrocities, he argues.
He stated that in contrast to the conventional understanding that the Secretariat does not have much influence in the UN peacekeeping mission, LeBor said that “this is not the case, in-fact the Secretariat has repeatedly intervened in policymaking and peacekeeping operations, often with disastrous results.”
Assessing Kofi Annan’s (former UN Secretary General) legacy, Mr. LeBor said behind the international applause and praise for Kofi Annan, “there is a much darker story of incompetence, mismanagement and worse.”
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is the Pope Catholic?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Nope...utterly misplaced hope.
It’s throwing money at a bunch of criminals that, for the most part, laugh behind our backs and wish us harm.
It always was, is now, and forever will be.
If you have to ask...you’re clueless, Campus Report.
For sure. The UN should be given 30 days to leave the building in NY and then it should be demolished. Let ‘em set up in Venezuela.
The UN is like a trench coat covering a bunch of third world gnomes on each others shoulders. All the little countries trying to band together to siphon money and power from the US.
Is the United Nations A Symbol of False Hope?
Faith in the UN is a qualified symbol of a real dope. Good grief look at the record!!!
It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out.
The last decade? Try 62 years!
Yes.
It’s a symbol of the end of hope.
If the UN is a false hope, of course.
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