Opinion

2 OCT 09

Move the UN

The United Nations was founded in 1945 for the purpose of peace and preventing war. Today it has expanded its operations into dozens of different interests and for the past few years has been pursuing world government with the UN in charge and trying to devise a way to tax everyone in the world in order to finance its expanding agenda. Corruption is endemic and, as bureaucracies tend to become, it’s a gigantic paper factory.  

The original idea was the Western liberal idealist’s notion of how to foster human rights and justice globally. 

Victor Davis Hanson, military historian, columnist, political essayist and former classics professor, wrote back in 2005, “… with nearly 60 years of the U.N.—and more people have been lost in wars since 1945 than during World War II itself. Americans now distrust the U.N.'s record as much as they might applaud its idealism in theory. Why?

A half-century of Soviet bloc politics poisoned the body. Dictatorships that had killed millions of their own won an equal say to many Western democracies. Third-World countries were silent about the 80 million butchered by Stalin and Mao—and the millions more lost in tribal and religious wars in Africa and Asia.

Instead, over 400 U.N. resolutions gratuitously targeted tiny democratic Israel—without equal condemnation of its autocratic neighbors or commensurate concern for China's annexation of Tibet or Russia's absorption of the disputed Sakhalin Islands.

The terrorist Yasser Arafat addressed the General Assembly with a holster—to applause. Autocratic Cuba, Iran, Libya and Syria sat on or even chaired the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. U.N. blue helmets could not do anything to save innocent millions in Cambodia, Rwanda, the Balkans and Darfur.”

Its world headquarters is located in New York City, on a piece of expensive Manhattan real estate. The diplomats enjoy the high life, far removed from the places full of strife and chaos that they are supposed to concern themselves with in the General Assembly, when they’re not condemning the United States or the American way of life. Perhaps they would be more effective if they lived closer to the action. 

Remember the Oil for Food scandal? The Oil for food program was established in 1995 by Security Council Resolution 986. Operations commenced in December 10, 1996 to allow Iraq to export oil to bona fide oil traders for imports of food and other humanitarian necessities to relieve the impact that UN economic sanctions on the Hussein regime were having on ordinary Iraqis. The scheme, according to the

Heritage Foundation “was subverted by Saddam Hussein's regime and manipulated to help prop up the Iraqi dictator. Saddam's dictatorship was able to siphon off an estimated $10 billion from the Oil-for-Food program through oil smuggling and systematic thievery, by demanding illegal payments from companies buying Iraqi oil, and through kickbacks from those selling goods to Iraq--all under the noses of U.N. bureaucrats. The members of the U.N. staff administering the program have been accused of gross incompetence, mismanagement, and possible complicity with the Iraqi regime in perpetrating the biggest scandal in U.N. history.”  With the crooks at the UN covering up for each other, was difficult to pin anything on anyone though it was clear they were guilty.  

Presently, the South Korean Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, is pushing Global Warming. Since he is no more of a climatologist that I am, I think he sees a way to turn a buck out of whatever comes of the matter. You start thinking like that when the UN has lost its credibility. 

The world would be better served if the UN stuck to promoting peace and issuing worthless sanctions to countries that will ignore them, rather than meddling in scams like global warming.

I, for one, favor allowing some other country to experience the glory of hosting the UN. How about Timbuktu? 

Timbuktu is in Mali, and that’s about 1000 miles east of the West coast of Africa, in the Sahara desert. I think it would make a wonderful home for the UN and it would really help the economy of Mali. Whenever Libyan dictator Colonel Kaddafi came to make a rambling speech and criticize the US, he wouldn’t have any trouble finding a place to pitch his tent like he did last week in New York. And it’s only 1500 miles from the Libyan capital.  

Of course there are many other equally suitable places to locate the world body’s headquarters. It’s something to dream about.

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