Posted on 03/16/2003 6:55:44 PM PST by witnesstothefall
In its effort to gain support for war against Iraq, the US has failed to make a convincing case and failed in its effort to gain the support of the UN Security Council. Having failed, the US is threatening to act alone and outside the framework of the United Nations. This is the ultimate threat the US is using to intimidate and coerce world countries to gain their support. The tactics the US is using are those of despots, and dictatorships that always go beyond the law and will use any means to achieve their interests -- bribe, lie, intimidate, and if all else fails, use force. That is the state of affairs the world is in today.
The US is the dominant power in political, economic, and military affairs and holds a choke hold on many of the international institutions. As such, this political, economic and military monopoly is causing great damage to world development -- as should be expected from a monopoly. But the extent of damage has become so great that this state of affair should no longer be tolerated.
The US is giving the world an ultimatum: Either follow us and do as we say, or else we will do what we want anyway. Many countries in the world may feel helpless against such intimidating power for fear of US reprisal against them politically, economically, or even militarily. They have been conditioned to this mentality, and have accepted the status quo for a long time, with the US managing to outflank any real efforts that limits its power. But the US is now challenging the world on a grand scale, defiant of its institutions -- institutions that it has helped develop and used herself over and over again to its advantage.
So the world is before a choice: to cower and give in to the USA and let things proceed as they have in the past -- with much greater potential of degeneration as the US becomes even much more dominant, or the world can very simply and calmly reply to the US ultimatum with one of its own: If you will not respect the UN decisions and will, then get out of the UN or we will kick you out. This message should be acted on Monday, even if only symbolically as a quick start, toward achieving this goal.
The UN has been handicapped for too long by the UN Security Council, which had been totally handicapped and dominated by the USA. The world needs to have true and effective democratic institutions -- with the true sense of the word -- to resolve conflicts and manage its affairs. Nothing less than the standards of domestic institutions will suffice at the international level as well.
The biggest obstacle to this development has been the United States of America. The United States, itself, is incapable of extricating itself from the position it is in. It is a monopoly that enjoys the position it is in, and would naturally not relinquish this position by itself, while at the same time, the US knows that monopolies are not good. Clearly, there needs to be an outside force to change this situation. So let us give the United States a helping hand in forcing it to do what is right. It will not be easy and it will require courage, but it is the right thing to do, and it will produce the kind of results many want.
It is time to kick the USA out of the UN Security Council for starters, or out of the United Nations if need be. The world can do without such bullies and war mongers and international dictators. No more ultimatums to the UN. If you don't like the United Nations, then get out of it; Tomorrow is a good day to announce this. And if the USA does not announce this itself, then the countries of the world should seize the moment and understand what is going on and act. Make no mistake about it, this issue, at its core, has little to do with Iraq. This is a grandiose game that its details are not the subject of this article. In short, this is about the kind of future the world wants for itself. Here is a chance to show that you don't support dictators and their methods. Kick the USA out of the UN. Enough autocracy, let the world know true international democracy, and let the world see how fast peace and economic progress will flow everywhere; They will wonder why they waited this long; Of course, they felt they could not, because the USA was in the way, and it still is.
Time for the USA to get out of the UN. If not, it should be kicked out. This should be Monday's proposed resolutions at the UN security Council and at the UN General Assembly. Time for the United Nations to grow up and become independent of the USA, and it is time for democratic international institutions. Let a new era of world development begins.
My "pirate name" is "Dirty Mary Flint". I like it. Echoes of Mary Read, one of my favorite pirates. "If he had fought like a man, he need not have been hanged like a dog." (or was that Anne Bonney?)
Pyle is THE original Pirate Artist, although Wyeth's style is the more sophisticated and to my mind more effective.
Politics makes great theatre. And watching the European "Powers" and their friends in the Third World trying to figure out what country is picking up their next lunch tab would be priceless.
Works for me.
I attended Jr. High in South Dakota - a top notch education in TOM DASCHLE'S STATE! What went wrong? LOL
There's a pirate for ye. Daschle is a traitor and I hope our brave soldiers from SD vote for his opponent in 2004.
Apparently, TOM DASCHLE, the French, the Germans and Coffee Cake Anon don't realize that talk is cheap - real cheap. It won't make U.S. irrelevant. PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. Floriduh Voter
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq.htm
Blind Pew flailing in the cold moonlight, falling under the hooves of the horses on the road . . . and the wickedness of him laid out so plainly, yet you still felt sorry for him and his horrible death -- cold shivers! And of course Silver - Stevenson said that he painted him from a friend, taking away all his goodness and nobility, and leaving only his incredible, expansive geniality. (I really don't think that Tim Curry did him justice -- not to mention that whenever I see him in a "serious" movie role I giggle. Be sure the sins of your youth will find you out.)
Give them 24 hours to get out of the country.
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