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Another Triumph for the U.N. (Darfur, Sudan)
NY Times ^ | September 25, 2004 | DAVID BROOKS

Posted on 09/24/2004 9:02:18 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 09/24/2004 9:02:18 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Why didn't the UN do it soon as they knew what was going on in Sudan?


2 posted on 09/24/2004 9:04:01 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: neverdem

The UN does not care about lives. They care about money and power. They serve no good purpose.


3 posted on 09/24/2004 9:04:25 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: neverdem

Disgusting.


4 posted on 09/24/2004 9:07:49 PM PDT by Redcoat LI ("I am the great and powerful Kerry! Look at my medals!")
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To: neverdem
It's a pity about the poor dead people in Darfur. Their numbers are still rising, at 6,000 to 10,000 a month.

Thank goodness we have the all mighty UN to keep the peace. Now, we need them to band together and bring the same peace and stability to Iraq.

Signed,
John Kerry.

5 posted on 09/24/2004 9:08:08 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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To: Ptarmigan
Why didn't the UN do it soon as they knew what was going on in Sudan?

Because they are the UN, a den of thieves, murderers, and dictators.

6 posted on 09/24/2004 9:08:46 PM PDT by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: dalebert

The U.N. has sat on its hands for years. The U.N is so worried about pleasing everyone, it's not concerned about what the important issues are. These days, the only people that DON'T care about pleasing, is the United States. Thet are decisively anti-American.

In fact...come to think of it, when you put together U.N. and American...you get UN-American. That's precisely what the U.N. is.


7 posted on 09/24/2004 9:10:20 PM PDT by JayRay (On November 2 Don't Turn the White House Into The Waffle House!)
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To: neverdem

Great piece. Thanks for posting it.


8 posted on 09/24/2004 9:10:27 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (www.swiftvets.com: where the truth lives on, after 35 years of Kerry lies.)
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To: neverdem

The UN has little or nothing to do with conscience these days. It basically is an organization with effects transfer payments, often to the unworthy, while taking a very substantial cut for itself. It typically sucks even as a debating society. Sad to say, at this juncture, it doesn't serve much of a useful purpose.


9 posted on 09/24/2004 9:11:04 PM PDT by Torie
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To: JayRay

The UN is only concerned with "pleasing" the murderers and dictators of the world. It's not that they have sat on "their hands". It's that they can't oppose things like this because they would then be opposing themselves.


10 posted on 09/24/2004 9:13:07 PM PDT by Stonedog (Mr. Blather... tear down this STONEWALL!!)
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To: neverdem
Sudan proves, beyond a doubt, that the United Nations is a worthless entity.

And, this is the organization that my Pope, John Paul II, wants to exhort to resolve crises.

Meanwhile, George W. Bush, who clearly told the panty-wearing UN assembly on Tuesday that genocide was occurring, is the devil himself in the eyes of the world, the Democrat Party, and the Roman Catholic Church, for daring to liberate 50 million human beings from tyranny.

Humanitarian organizations and religious denominations are worthless in the war on terror. Thank God that men of resolve will use violence to achieve victory over subhuman animals.

Summits, and meetings, and conferences, and negotiations are the refuge of cowardice.

The point of a gun is the only thing this refuse understands.

11 posted on 09/24/2004 9:13:37 PM PDT by sinkspur ("John Kerry's gonna win on his juices. "--Cardinal Fanfani)
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To: neverdem
This makes me weep. Shame on UN and shame on US for continuing to give a rat's ass what this corrupt bunch of toads think.
12 posted on 09/24/2004 9:13:55 PM PDT by Wonderama
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To: neverdem

Brooks nails it. Makes you want to scream at all the nuanced sophisticates!


13 posted on 09/24/2004 9:14:04 PM PDT by formercalifornian (Daschle: "Never has so much clout" enriched the abortion industry)
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To: neverdem

The usual UN movements -

Perhaps someone should ask Clinton how he was able to convince so many about Yugo. and attacking them - the PR firms did wonders (and that was with only 2,000 est. dead on both sides in one year - vs - over 1 million dead in another nation at the same time) -


14 posted on 09/24/2004 9:15:13 PM PDT by Pastnowfuturealpha
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To: neverdem
Okay! For a second there, I thought that MAYBE, the NYT Editorial Board was starting to 'get it' about the UN, for after this piece, it's a short walk to knowledge that a United Nations screw-up in Iraq was inevitable had we actually left the job to them.

But then, I realized that all was still right with the world, for it wasn't the vaunted NYT Editorial Board involved with this scintillating, insightful commentary -- rather, it was an invited op-ed columnist that Doesn't Necessarily Reflect The Views of The Paper.

Good, I can sleep well now. My expectations have not been raised!

15 posted on 09/24/2004 9:16:45 PM PDT by alancarp (When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
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To: Pastnowfuturealpha
Perhaps someone should ask Clinton how he was able to convince so many about Yugo. and attacking them the PR firms did wonders (and that was with only 2,000 est. dead on both sides in one year - vs - over 1 million dead in another nation at the same time) -

He didn't.
No house or senate vote.
No UN.
No allies.
He just did it, and the liberal press spun it later.

16 posted on 09/24/2004 9:23:13 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Vote Republican - Vote morally correct!)
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To: neverdem

Damn, neverdem; that is a beautiful piece of writing. Ironic, mordant, accurate to the point of painful; and sadly utterly true.
Somehow I cannot help but feel the tragedy upon which you expound would have been handled --- if handling is even the appropriate term -- had this nightmare unfolded in Scotland.


17 posted on 09/24/2004 9:24:48 PM PDT by fourthrider (fourthrider...Proud Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
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To: neverdem

One most important fact missing from this op-ed is why the UN will do nothing. Sudan sits on the UN Human Rights Commission. Is it any wonder Bush got such a cool reception from the UN?

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chrmem.htm


18 posted on 09/24/2004 9:26:07 PM PDT by htbreakers
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To: formercalifornian
Brooks nails it.

He can be pretty good with ridicule and satire.

19 posted on 09/24/2004 9:26:30 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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To: Ptarmigan

The Sudanese government was praised because the massacres are proceeding more slowly. The air was filled with nuanced obfuscations, technocratic jargon and the amoral blandness of multilateral deliberation.
They don't act..they might offend the Islamic brothers.


20 posted on 09/24/2004 9:32:31 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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