Posted on 07/30/2006 5:27:06 AM PDT by knighthawk
The United Nations is impotent. Thats the only diagnosis an objective person can arrive at by looking at the facts. Time and time again, the United Nations has been called upon to protect innocent people and has failed.
In Rwanda, in the Balkans, in Somalia, in Iraq and now in Lebanon, perhaps as many as a million people have died on the U.N.s watch.
Lets take Lebanon. On July 29, 2004, the Security Council reiterated its strong support for the territorial integrity of that tiny country. To back up that support, the U.N. continued to fund a force of soldiers to make sure misbehavior on the part of terrorists, Syria or Israel was kept to a minimum.
Less than two months later, the Security Council passed Resolution 1559, which called for, among other things, the disbanding and disarmament of all militias inside Lebanon. That means you, Hezbollah.
Well, the Hez guys and Syria and Iran were all greatly amused by Resolution 1559, and soon thereafter, thousands more long-range missiles began finding their way into southern Lebanon, where some of them were placed in private homes and mosques.
The United Nations did nothing.
Then, three weeks ago, Hezbollah attacked, killing eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two others inside Israel. Obviously, this was an act of war to which Israel responded by bombing Hezbollah positions throughout Lebanon.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan then swung into action and called for an immediate cease-fire. Annan is really good at doing that. He is an expert at giving peace a chance while innocent people are being attacked. Would Kofi want a cease-fire if thousands of missiles were pointed at his house? I dont think so. Kofi would likely want those weapons destroyed.
Anyway, there is no question that once again the United Nations was supposed to diffuse a bad situation - the chaos in Lebanon - but actually made things worse. There is not enough Viagra in the world to fix the United Nations impotency problem.
So now the world faces an onslaught of Islamic fascism with no credible international body to stand in its way. The left in the United States and Europe has no solution to the growing menace, and the right is on the defensive because of the bloody stalemate in Iraq.
In the meantime, terrorists believe they are winning.
Put yourself in the sandals of an Iranian mullah who hates Jews and Americans. He sees that the world is not going to help Iraq form a democracy. He sees the United Nations failing in every attempt to impose order. He reads the New York Times and grins while its columnists savage any anti-terror measure the Bush administration comes up with. He sees Russia and China not willing to take action against Iran as it continues to pursue nuclear weapons. And, finally, he sees much of the world siding with Hezbollah against Israel.
This mullah is one happy guy, is he not?
So thats where we are right now in the war on terror. Just as in World War II, the bad guys have gotten off to a fast start. The good guys turned it around 60 years ago, but today the betting line in Tehran is that Kofi and the world body he represents will continue to be no problem.
Sounds like a safe bet to me.
"Solutions Do not exist for everything. And railing against others for not providing the nonexistent is futile."
Are you aiming that at me, or at people commenting on the inability of a body with no military arm of its own to solve every problem in the world? :)
The US out of the UN, the UN out of the US.
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To cut the chase -
Humans are not capable of ruling ourselves or this planet. We must look for a Ruler that is able to rule us. Bible quote below:
Nebuchadnezzars Dream
36 This is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation of it before the king. 37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory;
38 and wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven, He has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them allyou are this head of gold.
39 But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours; then another, a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything; and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.
41 Whereas you saw the feet and toes, partly of potters clay and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; yet the strength of the iron shall be in it, just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.
43 As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the goldthe great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.
Daniel 2:28-49 (New King James Version)
BibleGateway.com
Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed
15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms[a] of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!
Revelation 11:15 (New King James Version)
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