UN-- Time To Withdraw
Time magazine details the deepening scandal involving the UN & Saddam.
China View quotes Kofi Annan as saying he's going to try to stop UN peacekeeping personnel, military and civilian, from raping women in the Congo.
The UN staff is likely to issue a vote of "no confidence" against Annan this week.
Twenty-one years after it started, and several years after documented genocide, the UN Security Counsel finally, on Friday, called for an end to the civil war in the Sudan.
I could go on, and on,--but of course, these stories are just from the last 3 days! There is an aptly named site, The UN is Evil, which details other crimes of the UN.
Why not withdraw from the UN? Maybe 60 years ago diplomats had to physically be in a room together; maybe then there was a need to gather in order to timely share information, documents, etc.
That day is long gone. There is no "red phone" anymore-- our leaders talk, if not agree- and information freely flows. Conference calling is now decades old; videoconferencing is now old hat. Those lines of communication developed outside the UN, often in spite of the UN. .
All the UN does is soak up money for its own bureacracy, and prop up illegitimate regimes through massive grants of money that is immediately stolen.
It's time-- dump it. We can use NGO's where needed to distribute aid. We can use NATO, and these informal alliances, to handle military situations.
Any place that elected Libya as chairman of its Human Rights Commission has got to be put out of its misery.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin calls the Congo the UN's Abu Ghraib, and she's right (as usual).
China View quotes Kofi Annan as saying he's going to try to stop UN peacekeeping personnel, military and civilian, from raping women in the Congo.
The UN staff is likely to issue a vote of "no confidence" against Annan this week.
Twenty-one years after it started, and several years after documented genocide, the UN Security Counsel finally, on Friday, called for an end to the civil war in the Sudan.
I could go on, and on,--but of course, these stories are just from the last 3 days! There is an aptly named site, The UN is Evil, which details other crimes of the UN.
Why not withdraw from the UN? Maybe 60 years ago diplomats had to physically be in a room together; maybe then there was a need to gather in order to timely share information, documents, etc.
That day is long gone. There is no "red phone" anymore-- our leaders talk, if not agree- and information freely flows. Conference calling is now decades old; videoconferencing is now old hat. Those lines of communication developed outside the UN, often in spite of the UN. .
All the UN does is soak up money for its own bureacracy, and prop up illegitimate regimes through massive grants of money that is immediately stolen.
It's time-- dump it. We can use NGO's where needed to distribute aid. We can use NATO, and these informal alliances, to handle military situations.
Any place that elected Libya as chairman of its Human Rights Commission has got to be put out of its misery.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin calls the Congo the UN's Abu Ghraib, and she's right (as usual).
posted by A Red Mind in a Blue State at 7:50 PM
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