Posted on 03/13/2005 3:45:30 PM PST by traderrob6
There were two exchanges between Chris Wallace and Malloch Brown(Annan Chief of Staff) that were nothing less than incredible.
MALLOCH BROWN: Because it's happened in some missions, and when it happened in Cambodia, it was attacked there, and we tried to address it.
But I think the problem is, we are dealing with something which in some ways is as old as soldiering itself. And the difference is that the U.S. military or my own military, the British military, have in recent decades invested a huge amount of leadership and resources to break these old habits of occupying military groups, to make them realize that this abuse of women in the community is utterly unacceptable.
In our case, our very underfunded peacekeeping missions, with soldiers stitched together from Bangladesh, Jordan, many other different countries, all under their own different commands and without the resources to give them the other recreational options, that the standards of behavior have not been modernized in the same way that has happened with the American or the British military, and we've now got to tackle that. And the governments who support us in the Security Council have to help us do it by improving the lines of command and putting the resources in it to give soldiers other options.
WALLACE: Let me ask you about one last area. And as you pointed out, I think a lot of Americans don't have ideological feelings about the United Nations, and I agree with you that they believe in the ideals on which it was formed in the 1940s as well. But they've come to the conclusion that it's useless. They look at what happened in Rwanda (search), where a genocide takes place and yet U.N. peacekeepers pull out. They look at what's happening in Darfur (search)now, and they ask, why doesn't the U.N. stop the killing?
MALLOCH BROWN: Well, look, take both those cases, you know, we're running at the moment more than a dozen peacekeeping missions in the world. They're all terribly overstretched. The total cost per year, the money we're allowed for running that, is less than a week or so of the U.S. costs of its military actions in Iraq. This is underfunded. There's an absence of political will.
Ok, let's get this straight. Malloch Brown is saying that the rape of thousands of young people in the Congo spanning years is the result of a lack of resources to give them "other recreational options??? And the opinion of many that the UN is worthless due to total ineffectiveness is primarily do to lack of funding????
After this interview, if you still don't believe the UN is bloated, corrupt, misguided and irrelevent, please seek professional help immediately, you are suffering from severe and likely irreversible naivity.
Fricking incredible.
That goes double for me.
I wish I could say that I was the least bit surprised with Malloch Brown's answers but I'm not.
With any Leftist organization, there are generally two excuses as to why a given program doesn't succeed:
1) The right people haven't tried it (as in Communism didn't work because smart US Communists idn't get a chance to try it here).
2) Program "XXXXX" was underfunded (examples in the US are legion- education, welfare, etc.)
Brown obviously took the second excuse and ran with it. When Brown says "Security Council" has to "help" "putting in the resources", you can bet that she means one member: the US. If they want more money from us, then I'd say that would entitle us to a bigger say in what goes on at the UN....and we all know that'll never happen.
The first priority of any bureaucracy is to protect its existence. The second is to continuously expand the bureaucracy. The UN is a show case for that.
They need to go away.
My guess is that since Euro's are such sheep, it never occured to the UN Weasels to invest more art and energy into their spin. Funny to watch though - like keeping back the giggles as a 3rd Rate Grifter tries to con you.
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