Posted on 10/04/2002 1:24:54 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
There are many reasons it's wrong to go to the United Nations for permission to defend the United States of America.
There are even more reasons not to use Iraq's violations of U.N. resolutions as the principal justification for an attack.
Already the usual suspects are stating the obvious: If we are about to attack Iraq because it has violated U.N. resolutions, why aren't we attacking Israel?
The proponents of the argument recognize the U.N. has spent an inordinate amount of time and energy over the last 50 years condemning the Jewish state. There's just no dispute about it. The U.N. hates Israel. It has almost from the moment the U.N. voted to approve the creation of the state in 1948. Israel is perceived by the U.N. as perhaps the greatest threat to peace in the world.
Just look at the facts. Of 175 Security Council resolutions passed by the U.N. before 1990, 97 of them were directed against Israel. Of 690 General Assembly resolutions before 1990, 429 condemned Israel.
The U.N. is obsessed with Israel.
And that is a great example of why we should treat the U.N. for what it is – an evil and irrelevant group of global busybodies.
Israel is no threat to anyone except those who seek to destroy it. Frankly, even to those people, it's not enough of a threat. Israel's biggest problem is that it has been so wimpy and conciliatory except during wartime when it is faced with extinction.
The U.N. sees no great danger posed by totalitarian nations imposing their will on neighbors – regimes like the one in Syria. Syria, in fact, even served as chairman of the Security Council during the month of June this year. Yet, there is only one nation actually occupying another in the Mideast today, and that one nation is Syria, which has a political and military stranglehold on Lebanon.
The U.N. sees no great danger when a nation like Sudan makes war on its own people because of race and religion. The Islamic radicals who run the country have aided Osama bin Laden in the past. Today they are content to continue the mass murder of Christians and animists in the southern region of the country and in the Nubian mountain region.
The U.N. sees no great danger in tribal wars like the one that flared in Rwanda, resulting in the deaths of more than 1 million people. In fact, the evidence is now clear the U.N. had advance knowledge of the impending slaughter and did nothing to prevent or even condemn it.
The U.N. sees no great danger in the wholesale, government-sponsored, racist land-grabs currently underway in Zimbabwe, for instance. White farmers are being held hostage and murdered in a systematic, orchestrated, forceful and violent campaign of wealth redistribution. Not as much as a whimper of concern was expressed by the U.N. Conference on Racism.
Yet, the U.N. has even characterized the Jewish state as a racist concept. Yet, was it racist when the people of Kosovo – ethnic Albanians, mainly Muslims – wanted independence from Serbia? Evidently not, according to the U.N. In fact, NATO bombed Serbia in an effort to accomplish the objective of an autonomous Kosovo.
Was it racist when mainly Muslim Bosnians wanted to create a separate nation? Evidently not, according to the U.N, which helped ensure the creation and maintenance of such a state.
Think of all the national independence movements based on ethnicity and religion that have received the support of the international community in recent years. Why is it that only Israel is targeted in this way?
It's time for the United States to recognize the U.N. is a sham from beginning to end. It's a disgrace that we continue to court this modern-day global Tower of Babel. It's time for us to say goodbye to this dangerous and useless group of power-mad tinhorn dictators.
When the U.S. is attacked without provocation, it's up to us to defend our nation. We don't need nor want the U.N.'s blessing.
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On a related subject, I just got an invitation to a "Progressive" acquaintance's birthday party. Because, for some reason, all progressives have this idea that Annan and the rest of the UN leadership are all righteous demigods, the party is being held on United Nations Day and is having a UN, dress in the spirit of your favorite country theme. I thought of wearing my patriotic American flag shirt. But I thought I might make more of a statement at the party if I wore an IDF or Israeli Star of David t-shirt -with an American flag pin. :oD Anyone have any idea where I could order an IDF or Israeli flag shirt in America? I don't think I'd get it on time if I ordered from Israel.
So many people have this idea that the United States should cower in fear and shame in the presence of the United Nation's righteousness. And yet here they are, sitting together with the enemy, not even raising a finger to protest the grusome, inhumaine displays they post to taunt the Israelis. I did an internet search to see if I could find any photographs. I couldn't find picture proof, but I did find several articles that refered to the same thing. The American Prowler and The Wall Street Journal (Flagging Enthusiams for Terrorists) which refers to American Prowler article.
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