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Friday, August 18, 2006

Will America Ever Shake Off its Orgasmic Infatuation with the U.N.?

Why does anyone even bother with the U.N.? How much longer will America continue to bow to the likes of the farce that is the U.N.? To weak and spineless France? When will the world see the U.N. for what it is; an ineffectual body of liars, thieves, despots and lickspittles?

France was to have led the international force of peacekeepers, sending 3500 troops to keep the peace in Lebanon. She has decided to send only 200.

The Lebanese army was to disarm Hezbollah, but the Lebanese government has pointedly said they will do no such thing.

The United Nations itself is the biggest-- with the most potential for harm --repository of anti-semitism in the world. Kofi himself makes excuses for Peacekeepers while jumping to uninformed conclusions about Israeli actions and motives.

U.N. Peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have allowed Hezbollah to use its equipment and vehicles in their attacks against Israel. Hezbollah has repaid the favor by attacking Israel from positions close to U.N. positions, making U.N. personnel targets. But no condemnation of Hezbollah from Kofi Annan, no. That is reserved for the State of Israel.

The U.N. has even said the peacekeeping force being sent to Lebanon will not make any effort to keep Hezbollah from rearming, or attacking Israel. So what use are they? And why bother calling it a peacekeeping force?

The U.N. can't enforce its resolutions. It didn't enforce the seventy some resolutions against Iraq. It didn't enforce the previous resolution in Lebanon-- U.N. Resolution 1559 --and it won't enforce this new one.

In the meantime, this current ceasefire will fail. There will be no peace between Israel and Hezbollah. And I find it rather curious that the U.N. has been strangely silent about the continued fighting in Gaza. Why is that? Could it be because France has no interest in Gaza, as it does in Lebanon?

There has been no clear winner in this conflict. They only faction that could be said to have come out the other side in better shape is Hezbollah. They have stood up to the mighty Israeli army and survived, and Israel has shown herself to be weak by giving in to pressure from the thoroughly pointless U.N. Hezbollah will re-arm with more sophisticated weaponry graciously supplied by Iran, China and North Korea through Syria. And the U.N. will do nothing.

Israel's enemies won't be satisfied until they've made the entire nation a modern-day Golgotha*. And the U.N. doesn't care. What the U.N. has really done here is set the stage for a larger, wider war in a year or two, if not sooner-- Remember, "Cease Fire" in Arabic means, "Re-load" --But the U.N. doesn't care, and doesn't seem to care that Syria will take the brunt of Israel's-- still future --War of Survival.

The U.N. would be quite happy to replace Israel altogether with a State of Palestine. Israel, a United Nations member state, being treated like a bastard child... An embarrassment... The mistake of mis-spent youth.

Iran will continue its enrichment of Uranium and the U.N. will do nothing.

Iran will eventually achieve nuclear weapons and the U.N. -- powerless to do anything up to THAT eventuality -- will cede to Iran the trump it needs to wreak all the havoc it desires. You WILL see the use of nuclear weapons in your lifetime. The U.N. has all but guaranteed it.

The U.N. will watch the world burn around it and castigate the U.S. for trying to put the fires out.

As to Prime Minister Olmert, he's done. Stick a fork it him, he's done. Israel will have to fight this all over again. The Road Map to Peace is dead. Forget it... Not gonna happen. One shining positive in all this is with Olmert gone the hand-over of the West Bank may also be dead.

Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has said it now sees that rockets CAN defeat Israel; that Israel is in fact on the brink of falling. And we allowed it happen by pressuring Israel to give up before a clear-cut victory was achieved.

There has been dancing in the streets in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza (while dodging bullets and rocket-fire), Egypt...

Israel is weak. The West is Weak. America for all her military might... Is weak. There is no will left in the world to fight evil or purge corruption. Especially at the U.N... America even seems to have lost the will to defend freedom.




If any whore deserved to be dragged to the city square and publicly stoned to death, it's the United Nation. Raze her, level her and salt the earth... Let nothing grow there ever again.



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* by interpretation, 'The place of a skull'

4 Comments:

Blogger Brooke said...

I literally do not know ANYONE who takes the UN seriously.

And the thing that really burns me is that by allowing them to headquarter themselves on our soil, we are a party to the atrocities they openly commit in Africa.

We need to put that land to use as a garbage dump. It would be more productive and clean that way.

August 18, 2006 11:36 AM  
Blogger Dan Trabue said...

"Why does anyone even bother with the U.N.?"

The UN is, without a doubt, a flawed institution. As is the US Congress and our executive and judicial branches.

Flawed human institutions, all.

We keep the UN, and the US gov't, because we need a sense of order. If there are NO international laws or overseeing bodies, it would be akin to having no federal laws in the US or no State Laws at the local level.

Ideally, decisions and policies are made at the local level. That is usually the best.

But sometimes, the local level may have oppression, or deny rights of some local folk, or may impinge on the rights of the local folk in the next community.

In those cases, it is necessary (as far as I can tell - I'm open to other suggestions) to have some overarching body to mediate.

If not, then we'll have each locality making up their own rules of when they can and can't oppress, when they can and can't interfere with other localities. In short, chaos.

And brooke, for what it's worth, I don't know ANYONE personally who doesn't take the UN seriously (even while we acknowledge its flaws).

August 18, 2006 1:22 PM  
Blogger Eric said...

Dan, that was so very well thought out. Congratulations!

However, the U.N. doesn't mediate anything... the U.N. complicates everything.

Secondly,

"then we'll have each locality making up their own rules of when they can and can't oppress, when they can and can't interfere with other localities. In short, chaos."

Up to the birth of the U.N. the world got along fine, despite the chaos. Can you honestly look at the world today and say the world is better off for the United Nations influence? The U.N. hasn't successfully averted one single war, nor has it ever brought peace. If anything, the U.N. has been a force for division in world politics.

Like everything else in life that fails its purpose, it's time to scrap the U.N. for something that can better do the job.

What? No refutations of the accusations I've leveled against the U.N.?

August 18, 2006 2:40 PM  
Blogger Al-Ozarka said...

I take the UN seriousl.y because it protects oppression and sets the stage for continued violence worldwide. It is a scourge of mankind--our worst kind of enemy!

August 18, 2006 3:30 PM  

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