Posted on 07/23/2006 4:42:19 AM PDT by BerlinStrausbaugh
If you had a dog that bit you every time you fed it, or a horse that kicked you every time you groomed it, chances are you would not suffer their abuse very long.
So why is that the US should continue to foot 25% of the entire UN budget only to have its interests undermined by the small minds running the shop?
One of America’s self-defined elements of power is its ability to form diplomatic alliances. However that particular engine isn’t exactly firing on all cylinders, meaning that most of America’s efforts at finding international support are thwarted by the likes of France, Germany, China, Russia and especially the UN.
So the first place to start letting the world know that America is no longer every two-bit despot’s piñata is by informing Mr. Annan and his cadre of anti-American bureaucrats that the UN would be much better off elsewhere, Burkina Faso, perhaps, where it never snows and the trip home to Mr. Annan’s native Ghana isn’t so tedious.
Let’s face it the UN has degenerated into an organization whose only interest in world peace and international prosperity is if those goals can be achieved within the framework of the bureaucracy’s guiding principles.
Those principals are an eventual one-world government, which would theoretically be governed by the UN. As a side effect it has also become a socialist old boys’ club that basically has no other interest than checking the United States at every turn and working on the eventual destruction of Israel. It is also strongly un-democratic, despite its one-nation one-vote policy, as it accepts all nations regardless of their internal political practices. That’s how countries like Iran, China, Libya, Cuba and North Korea can gain equal membership alongside countries with more democratic traditions such as Canada, Switzerland, Sweden or Australia.
"In place of membership in the UN, the US could organize a new world body that would be open only to countries with a functioning democratic government. Dictatorships need not apply."
While the United States withdrawing from the UN might have a destabilizing effect on that body, it’s high time the UN became familiar with reality. In place of membership in the UN, the US could organize a new world body that would be open only to countries with a functioning democratic government. Dictatorships need not apply. If this were to happen, there would be no confusion as to what constituted genocide, as now is the case with the UN.
With the US withdrawal, the UN would eventually be disbanded, as they could not meet the payroll for all the fat bureaucrats currently sucking that sow’s teats.
Organizations such as the PLO, al Fatah, al Qaeda and Hezbollah would no longer be able to hide behind the legalistic protection of apologists for terror, such as Louise Arbour, the former Canadian Supreme Court Justice who is currently the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Ms Arbour’s recent pronouncements that Israeli leaders and generals could be prosecuted under war-crimes legislation because they failed to show restraint in reacting to Hezbollah missile attacks against its population is so asinine as to not be worthy of a serious response. I’m sure the people of Canada are happy to have her off their supreme court, given that her tenure represented a period of extreme judicial activism that, had it continued, would have turned Canada into a Cuba with snow.
Long standing relationships, even those that have degenerated into mutual contempt, are often hard to break, as there is a comfort zone in keeping things the same. But at some point the benefit of all relationships have to be assessed to determine if they are equitable. The United States has reached that point and if a cost/benefit analysis of its relationship with the UN were to be conducted today, the numbers would fall heavily on the side of leaving.
There is no point in maintaining a relationship with an organization that puts the interests of democracies on par with the interests of the world’s most horrid dictatorships. Eventually that results in guilt by association. For that reason alone, it’s time to leave.
Zimbabwe would be a nice place to relocate this gaggle of Gucci-wearing geeks.
I have a copy of an article written by Steve Dunleavy 25 years ago which asks the same questions.
Nothing has changed.
75% of the UN budget is spent on bloated salaries.
Nothing has changed.
25 Years? TRY OVER 50 YEARS!!
I've posted this a couple of times, but like many other topics near and dear to all of our Conservative hearts, it bears repeating, over and over.
A Miasma of Corruption:
The United Nations at 50
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-253.html
EXCERPT:
The United Nations is under increasing attack by critics in the United States and other countries. At the heart of the organization's mounting problems is an almost total lack of accountability, which gives rise to suspicions of wholesale corruption. Existing evidence indicates that corruption and mismanagement go beyond the routine fraud, waste, and abuse of resources that mark all public-sector enterprises.
UN budgets are shrouded in secrecy, and the actual performance of the myriad bureaucracies is translucent, if not opaque. There is no reliable way to determine whether the various and often competing specialized agencies (at least two dozen UN agencies are involved in food and agricultural policy) are doing their jobs, and many UN activities, even if they are of some value, can be carried out better and more efficiently by other groups. Other activities should not be undertaken at all.
Available evidence coupled with the United Nations' unwillingness to undergo a thorough audit raise serious questions about its mission and the means used to carry it out. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's rationale that the world body is accountable to all its 185 member-states is meaningless. Such an amorphous standard of accountability is akin to saying no one is responsible.
The United Nations is in dire need of reform, starting with a comprehensive, independent audit. Even if a complete audit were performed, however, there is no guarantee anything would be done about the problems identified. And radical change may not be possible, no matter how obvious the need. Given all the earlier, failed attempts to put things right, even on a limited basis, optimism about meaningful reform may be an exercise in wishful thinking
GET THE US OUT OF THE UN NOW, AND THE UN OUT OF THE US!!!
All in good time.
If only someone would start hearing us.
An organization composed principally of DEMOCRATIC contries only would advance the cause of all far more effectively. One problem with the UN, is that non-democratic countries are given the same representation as democracies. This gives them far more legitimacy and effectiveness than they could otherwise hope for.
These UN bureaucrats have never had it better!
They get fat salaries paid for mainly by an empty US treasury, excellent housing and gratis meals.
While seated in the luxury of the UN headquarters they can spout their vile hatred of the US to their hearts' content.
I would dare say that the majority of Americans don't want this crooked, socialist/communist, America-hating organization in their country any longer.
Evict them. Throw their personal baggage into the streets and truck them to the airport.
Goodbye UN. You were NEVER a noble idea or experiment.
Many of these, unfortunately, are traitors without whom our nation would be better off if they left with the UN bureaucrats!
In 1994 the US Senate rejected the UN's Biodiversity Treaty.
Clinton said no problem. I can implement 60% of the treaty through the executive bureaucracy. And he did so -illegally.
So when you find you can't use your property or you're restricted from building a house or you can't cut your timber or build a road, that's the UN working against you via America's bureaucracy.
We need to not only get out of the UN, we need to abolish the fascist federal bureaucracy which is illegally carrying out the dictates of the UN.
Twenty-five years ago, those who suggested that America should get out of the UN (and vice versa)were seen as a kook fringe.
But now, most Americans agree. The general public perception of the UN has declined precipitously in the last 25 years, and that's a good thing.
Yes, at that time Mr. Dunleavy's column was in "Star" magazine. (Hey, I was only 14)
It was the beginning of conservatism for me.
Unfortunately, America has so many traitors in Washington, many of them unaware of the fact that they are our biggest problem. They're so busy being politically correct that the blood dripping from their hearts is drowning our nation.
The larger majority of them, however, are willing sycophants who would love (must be they gave their souls to satan)to see America relegated to third world status.
The U.N. is largly run by murderers and despots of nations that destroy human life and dignity and use American taxpayer dollars to support human life being killed. Add to that the death culture of the left wing fascist/athiest murderers of babies,children and old people in America by American's and one can see why nations always come to an violent and bloody end.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, but sin is a reproach to any people.
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