UN Leader Can't Discern Good from Evil

Freedom Alliance - UN Update ^ | 19 February 2002 | Fred Gedrich

[Stultis]

UN Leader Can't Discern Good from Evil

by Fred Gedrich

February 19, 2002

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently joined a gang of crowing critics by questioning President Bush's description of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil" and the "Bush Doctrine" which proclaims, "either you are with us or the terrorists."

Mr. Annan said, "you cannot divide the world between the good and evil, because between them, there are shades of gray."

This view is precisely what is wrong with the UN. Mr. Annan and his minions in the UN, global governance cronies and liberal media allies suffer from a malady known as "impaired acuity." Their pacifism prevents them from seeing the world accurately - as a dangerous place where terrorists operate with impunity - killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children in advancement of depraved political, social, and religious goals. It is a prime reason why President Bush wisely rejected their advice - soon after the September 11 attacks on the United States - to have the UN play the lead role in the "War on Terror."

It also explains why the UN - with the fate of the civilized world resting in the balance - has been unable to effectively cope with the scourge of global terrorism for the past 40 years. Shortly after the horrible attacks on the United States, Kofi Annan (officially called "His Excellency") promised a new anti-terrorism treaty and new measures to combat terrorism - and as usual, he failed to deliver.

As of February 2002, scores of UN members ignored anti-terrorism measures mandated by the Security Council which intended, among other things, to deny terrorists safe havens and money. And the UN's attempt to negotiate a comprehensive anti-terrorism treaty which is intended to plug serious holes in 12 other anti-terrorism treaties already on the books has reached another stalemate - because a majority of the UN members could not reach a consensus on the meaning of terrorism. In the meantime, many UN member states continue to provide terrorists sanctuary while they plot their next round of attacks on innocent civilians.

This is what happens in Kofi's "shades of gray," or neutral, world. Nothing definitive or constructive is possible.

President Bush has no such problem - he sees clearly the dangers terrorists pose and has appropriately responded to the threat. Despite the litany of verbal attacks on his policies, the President remains determined to protect Americans.

Despite all the fuss created by naysayers, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea deserve the President's attention. Their infamy is chronicled in the most recent edition of the congressionally mandated annual global terrorism report produced in the first year of the Bush administration (U.S. Department of State's Patterns of Global Terrorism - 2000). They also appeared in the eight reports produced by the Clinton administration - and in earlier reports produced by the Bush and Reagan administrations. The tyrants leading these countries not only harbor terrorist groups and practice and export terrorism, but also abuse their own people. Freedom House, a non-partisan and non-profit human rights group founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, ranks the three governments, in its 2001 report, among their list of the most oppressive regimes and human rights abusers in the world.

North Korea invests heavily in building military and missile arsenals - while millions of its people starve - and many believe it is the world's leading proliferator of ballistic missile technology. Its customers reportedly include Iran, Iraq and the terrorist organization al Qaeda. Its leaders refer to the United States as "Empire of the Devil."

The United States ranks Iran as the world's most active "state sponsor of terror" and a "human rights abuser." It supports terrorist organizations such as Hizballah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. Iran seeks weapons of mass destruction and its chief slogan is "Death to America."

The United States rates Iraq's record of compliance with post Gulf War obligations as poor, and its human rights record as abysmal. It has close ties to Yasser Arafat and Palestinian terrorist groups - and is accused of seeking and building weapons of mass destruction. It has prevented UN inspections since 1998.

President Bush, in a radio address to the nation and the world on September 15, 2001, enunciated the "Bush Doctrine." The President said, in plain spoken language clearly understood and appreciated by the vast majority of Americans, that victory against terrorism will occur "in a series of decisive actions against terrorist organizations and those who harbor and support them." Iran, Iraq and North Korea obviously meet his criteria.

Kofi Annan and his cronies in the UN and elsewhere are doing mankind a disservice by failing to stand against those who seek to harm innocent civilians. Perhaps it would behoove them to read Dante Allighieri's literary masterpiece Inferno. It offers a discourse on evil and the immortal words, "the hottest place in hell is reserved for those, who in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral."

In the "War on Terror" there can be no shades of gray or substitute for victory. The stakes are simply too high.

Fred Gedrich is a senior policy analyst at Freedom Alliance.

[Stultis]

This excellent and biting assessment of the UN is, sadly, as relevant now as it was a year ago.

[Bobby777]

UN Leader Can't Discern Good from Evil

UN Leader Can't Discern Good from Evil

[Russell Scott]

It is better to be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, God will spew you out. The UN gives God a major barf alert.

[whadizit]

I am so sick of that guy! How much longer is he the head honcho? He and his ilk are WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD!! How dare he tell our President what to do!!

GOT TO HELL UN, ANNAN, AND TAKE MENDELA WITH YOU!!

[Robert_Paulson2]

the world is NOT black and white... there ARE shades of gray... BUT you gotta draw the line somewhere... and Iraq is no ways near the middle... It is as close to black as can be...

If Iraq's sadaamed insane is not evil than the word has no meaning.

[The Great Satan]

Kofi Annan is a worthless, despicable piece of human detritus. See Richard Butler's book, The Greatest Threat, for the details.

[Brian Allen]

<< the world is NOT black and white... there ARE shades of gray... >>

That's interesting.

Does that make Saddam, "the butcher of baghdad," better, say, "less Evil," than Pol Pot?

And not as bad, say, as, say Hitler -- or Mao Tze Tung?

But worse than, let's say, Al Capone, the HillyBilly KKKli'toons, [And their entire co-serial-rapist lickspittle swill] John Gotti and Slobodan Milosevic.

[Which by your deinition has to make him "gray"]

And does he stay "gray" even as, while you watch, your child is the one he or one of his sons and/or other barbaric thugs, goons and savages will next rape, torture, sexually mutilate and slowly lower into a vat of acid.

And all of your sisters and your wife's sisters and your mother and her sisters and your wifes mother and all of hers [You get the picture] and then your wife -- are next?

To join the around two hundred thousand poor innocents so far -- and for no other "reason" than that he willed it so -- similarly disposed of?

And the million and a half or two he has caused to be slaughtered in wars fought only to feed and/or to boost his ego?

Shades of gray, eh?

An interesting theory, that.

And one I have often seen -- including, long ago, before it kinda became kinda passe there, on my so far more than 65 trips into and, thank G-d, out of, Iraq -- pursued into the gates of insanity.

And death.

Shalom.

[fporretto]

To recognize an absolute like "evil," one must recognize the existence of absolute principles of right and wrong, which cannot be set aside by any "practical" consideration. But that kind of clarity of vision is forbidden to the UNocrats. They have all traces of it surgically removed before they're installed in office.

Sadly, the same is true of an awful lot of American politicians, though, for a happy exception, not the current Commander-In-Chief.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[Brian Allen]

<< ..... the same is true of an awful lot of American politicians, though, for a happy exception, not the current Commander-In-Chief. >>

Yep.

Thank God for Our Nation's President and Armed Forces Commander In Chief and for the likes of Australia's John Howard, who also understands Good and Evil and Right and Wrong -- and, like President Bush, also has had the intuitive courage to ignore polls -- and to lead. Both are true Statesmen.

Britain's Blair, whose un emmissary recently effectively endorsed the elevation of Iraq and Libya to head key un committees [Iraq that concerned with disarmament -- good move Tony!] has an idea of Good and Evil but believes Sadam and his ilk to be evil judged by their actions, whereas the other two see much more clearly; know Saddam and Kim and Arafat et al to be the very manifestation of Evil -- and don't any longer care much what they do.

Or seems to do.

Or want the dead and decadent EURO-peons to say they seem to be doing.

[Robert_Paulson2]

you kinda missed the context brian...
not all who do evil sometimes are totally evil.
not all who do good most of the time, are totally good.

There is none good but God.
And He sees different levels of good and evil. To whom much is given more is required, or so says scripture, so not only is there degrees of evil, but degrees of punishment, discipline and accountability for what one does....

would you murder your child for stealing a cookie?
then don't get all preachy and sanctimonius about the fact that in practice YOU TOO see degrees of right, wrong, evil, good, punishment and reward.

very few want a "pass or fail" system in education... they want a graduated scale based on levels of performance A- or C+ D or B+... 100 percent, 85 percent...

even your monitor that you are looking at has at least 256 levels of gray... and if you have the money, it has 256 levels of red, green and blue.

Some folks are more evil than others. I would say that hitler was more evil than clinton. And tom daschle is more evil than your average RINO...

so go preach your idiocy elsewhere... the world is very very clearly NOT black and white... and if it were, we would all becounted amongst the evil doers.

as for sadaamned being good or evil... if you set the scale for evil at say 50 percent... I doubt he has even 5 percent good in him. I would say he is the the epitome of evil. I would say his wives may not be so evil... but apparently don't have enough good in them to do him in.

kofi anan... is not as evil as sadaamned, so far. But for enabling sadaam... and other tyrannists the world over, I would rate him at less than 25 percent good.

everything in life is on a scale.
nothing is black and white...