Time to Create a Legitimate World Organization
Frank Salvato
July 27, 2006
As Israel continues to battle Hezbollah and Hamas (the proxy warriors of Syria and Iran) in a struggle for their very existence, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has publicly accused the Israeli Defense Forces of “deliberately” targeting a UN observation post in Lebanon with a missile strike that took the lives of four UN peacekeepers. That a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, established in 1978 to assure peace in the region, has failed should not come as a surprise; that Kofi Annan should invite scrutiny of the UN in the face of its many failures does.
When the United Nations was established in 1945, there was great hope that it would serve to stave off future world conflicts through the facilitation of dialogue between nations. In theory, this concept – that ingenuous nations might be able to rationally meet in the spirit of compromise and negotiation – seemed sensible and noble. But as moral relativism and corruption manifested at the roots of the organization, ingenuousness disappeared and the organization fell to those possessing a globalist agenda, the victims of this ideological coup being innocents around the globe and the notion that there is good and evil in the world.
Beginning with the fact that nations that harbor terrorist groups, along with those who routinely ignore the basic tenants of human rights, are seated on the UN Human Rights Commission, it is easy to see how behind the scenes politics and the idea of inclusion at all costs has corrupted the very spirit of the organization. When nations such as Communist China, Syria and Vietnam can sit in judgment of others regarding their approach to human rights, the validity of the commission stands in question. And when Sudan, a leaderless country currently unable to prevent the ethic cleansing of it own people, is counted among those charged with examining the human rights practices of other nations, the commission’s credibility lay shattered.
Illustrating the decades of ineptitude and backroom political corruption is the tenure of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. To say that Annan’s “leadership” has been a miserable failure would be the epitome of an understatement.
Annan served as the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations from 1993 to 1994. Under this command, UN Peacekeepers were denied their repeated requests for authorization to intervene in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Annan’s inaction – and the inaction of the UN Security Council – is responsible for the genocidal massacre of an estimated 1,071,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
In 2002, reports that UN Peacekeepers were sexually abusing refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo came to light. Claims of pedophilia, rape and prostitution at a UN site in Bunia were dismissed by a UN investigation into the charges. It wasn’t until film surfaced validating the allegations that any action was taken. Still, Annan decided to downplay the atrocities stating that, he was, “…glad to say that the allegations concern only a small number of UN personnel.”
To date, the crisis in Darfur, Sudan receives little else but rhetoric as the number of those killed in what the United Nations cannot bring itself to call genocide approaches 500,000. While the UN Security Council has passed a peacekeeping resolution for Darfur, in which the African Union would transfer its 7,300-member peacekeeping force stationed there to UN control by the end of September, precious time is running out as radical Islamists flock to Sudan in an effort to reconstitute a base of operations lost in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The UN and Kofi Annan, assisted by the progressive-left and the mainstream media, continue to ignore that mass murder, ethnic cleansing and human rights atrocities were the primary reason given for the US-led liberation of Iraq. These were but a few of many reasons – including Iraq’s WMD programs and its links to terrorist organizations including al Qaeda – that were presented by President Bush in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 12, 2002. Yet Annan and his cohorts on this failing world body continue to characterize the liberation of over 31 million people from the totalitarian regime of Saddam Hussein as “an illegal war,” doing so in the face of the corrupt Oil-for-Food Program that saw UN officials lining their pockets with Saddam’s blood money.
Time after time the United Nations has been given the opportunity to “do what was right” in the eyes of the innocent and tortured, the threatened and the oppressed existing throughout the world. And time after time they have chosen a politically influenced globalist ideology over action and inaction over saving lives.
It is well past time that the United States takes the initiative in closing the history book on this ineffective and dangerous organization of ideologues, do-nothings, bureaucrats and criminals.
The US should assemble an exclusive coalition of functioning democratic governments from around the world and enjoin them in forming a legitimate world body whose tenants place liberty, freedom, human rights and justice above a globalist ideology that employs moral relativism and political corruption. Once this new and legitimate world body has been assembled the United States should immediately withdraw from the United Nations and cease all funding to the organization, declaring it corrupt beyond repair.
As the impotent UN stands in the shadow of its inability to define “terrorism,” and as the world stands witness to the on-going aggression of radical Islamofascism, an aggression reminiscent of the Nazi uprising, the only question to be asked is whether the world can continue to afford the ineptitude, in-action and corruption of the United Nations. To that extent, it’s only the survival of the world that hangs in the balance.
Frank Salvato is the managing editor for The New Media Journal. He serves at the Executive Director of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. His pieces are regularly featured in over 100 publications both nationally and internationally. He has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, and is a regular guest on The Right Balance with Greg Allen on the Accent Radio Network, as well as an occasional guest on numerous radio shows coast to coast. He recently partnered in producing the first-ever symposium on the threat of radical Islamist terrorism in Washington, DC. His pieces have been recognized by the House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict.
When the United Nations was established in 1945, there was great hope that it would serve to stave off future world conflicts through the facilitation of dialogue between nations. In theory, this concept – that ingenuous nations might be able to rationally meet in the spirit of compromise and negotiation – seemed sensible and noble. But as moral relativism and corruption manifested at the roots of the organization, ingenuousness disappeared and the organization fell to those possessing a globalist agenda, the victims of this ideological coup being innocents around the globe and the notion that there is good and evil in the world.
Beginning with the fact that nations that harbor terrorist groups, along with those who routinely ignore the basic tenants of human rights, are seated on the UN Human Rights Commission, it is easy to see how behind the scenes politics and the idea of inclusion at all costs has corrupted the very spirit of the organization. When nations such as Communist China, Syria and Vietnam can sit in judgment of others regarding their approach to human rights, the validity of the commission stands in question. And when Sudan, a leaderless country currently unable to prevent the ethic cleansing of it own people, is counted among those charged with examining the human rights practices of other nations, the commission’s credibility lay shattered.
Illustrating the decades of ineptitude and backroom political corruption is the tenure of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. To say that Annan’s “leadership” has been a miserable failure would be the epitome of an understatement.
Annan served as the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations from 1993 to 1994. Under this command, UN Peacekeepers were denied their repeated requests for authorization to intervene in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. Annan’s inaction – and the inaction of the UN Security Council – is responsible for the genocidal massacre of an estimated 1,071,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
In 2002, reports that UN Peacekeepers were sexually abusing refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo came to light. Claims of pedophilia, rape and prostitution at a UN site in Bunia were dismissed by a UN investigation into the charges. It wasn’t until film surfaced validating the allegations that any action was taken. Still, Annan decided to downplay the atrocities stating that, he was, “…glad to say that the allegations concern only a small number of UN personnel.”
To date, the crisis in Darfur, Sudan receives little else but rhetoric as the number of those killed in what the United Nations cannot bring itself to call genocide approaches 500,000. While the UN Security Council has passed a peacekeeping resolution for Darfur, in which the African Union would transfer its 7,300-member peacekeeping force stationed there to UN control by the end of September, precious time is running out as radical Islamists flock to Sudan in an effort to reconstitute a base of operations lost in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The UN and Kofi Annan, assisted by the progressive-left and the mainstream media, continue to ignore that mass murder, ethnic cleansing and human rights atrocities were the primary reason given for the US-led liberation of Iraq. These were but a few of many reasons – including Iraq’s WMD programs and its links to terrorist organizations including al Qaeda – that were presented by President Bush in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 12, 2002. Yet Annan and his cohorts on this failing world body continue to characterize the liberation of over 31 million people from the totalitarian regime of Saddam Hussein as “an illegal war,” doing so in the face of the corrupt Oil-for-Food Program that saw UN officials lining their pockets with Saddam’s blood money.
Time after time the United Nations has been given the opportunity to “do what was right” in the eyes of the innocent and tortured, the threatened and the oppressed existing throughout the world. And time after time they have chosen a politically influenced globalist ideology over action and inaction over saving lives.
It is well past time that the United States takes the initiative in closing the history book on this ineffective and dangerous organization of ideologues, do-nothings, bureaucrats and criminals.
The US should assemble an exclusive coalition of functioning democratic governments from around the world and enjoin them in forming a legitimate world body whose tenants place liberty, freedom, human rights and justice above a globalist ideology that employs moral relativism and political corruption. Once this new and legitimate world body has been assembled the United States should immediately withdraw from the United Nations and cease all funding to the organization, declaring it corrupt beyond repair.
As the impotent UN stands in the shadow of its inability to define “terrorism,” and as the world stands witness to the on-going aggression of radical Islamofascism, an aggression reminiscent of the Nazi uprising, the only question to be asked is whether the world can continue to afford the ineptitude, in-action and corruption of the United Nations. To that extent, it’s only the survival of the world that hangs in the balance.
Frank Salvato is the managing editor for The New Media Journal. He serves at the Executive Director of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiative. His pieces are regularly featured in over 100 publications both nationally and internationally. He has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, and is a regular guest on The Right Balance with Greg Allen on the Accent Radio Network, as well as an occasional guest on numerous radio shows coast to coast. He recently partnered in producing the first-ever symposium on the threat of radical Islamist terrorism in Washington, DC. His pieces have been recognized by the House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict.
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