Posted on 10/05/2009 2:07:45 PM PDT by SalAOR
Conservatives for years have been contending that the United Nations is a useless, ineffective organization that caters to dictators and rouge nations. In an interview yesterday International Atomic Energy Agency (an independent organization that reports to the UN) director-general Mohamed ElBaradei spoke about the security in the Middle East. He also identified what he saw as it’s greatest threat.
Was it Iran? No.
Syria? Nope.
Lebannon or Lybia? Not even close.
Al Quaeda? No. Hamas? No.
(Excerpt) Read more at axisofright.com ...
“rouge nations”? Perhaps the writer meant “rogue nations”?
In 1945 the West and the Leaders of the Free World were triumphant. Somehow, we pissed it all away. And now the door to a second holocaust is yawning open. And it won't stop there. It never does.
The UN is the greatest threat to freedom and the foremost supporter of Islam in the world.
Yeah, Israel, that tiny speck of land totally surrounded by many, many times it’s surface-area in nations that would like its existence to end, is the real threat to the Middle East. [/sarc]
Maybe in losing, the Nazi ideals won.
For perhaps it was our own arrogance of thinking “we’re better than that!” & “That could never happen here!” that opened the path for our blind tumbling down that path.
Remember that it was Hitler who ascended to power by capitalizing on Germany’s financial hardships and firing up a class-war (against rich [and therefore corrupt] Jews!).
Do you see people inciting class warfare among ourselves?
The UN is not useless, it’s dangerous. It is way past time for the US to not only get out of the UN, but to throw the UN out of the US. It only serves as a platform for third world dictatorships.
Rouge works too if we take it to mean red nations.
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