Even after Osama bin-Laden's al-Qaida terrorists crashed four hijacked airliners and slaughtered more than 3,000 innocent citizens on Sept. 11, 2001, the General Assembly of United Nations could not agree on a complete terrorism strategy.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Anne Bayefsky, adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School, professor of political science at York University, Toronto, and a member of the governing board of U.N. Watch, said attempts to arrive at a consensus on terrorism are consistently blocked, especially by Arab and Islamic nations.
Bayefsky reports that Saudi Arabia recently expressed the prevailing sentiment of many U.N. members by arguing "we should distinguish between the phenomenon of terrorism and the right of peoples to achieve self-determination."
Syria, a nation that supports terrorism and even controls its own terrorist incubator in Lebanon, is a member of the Security Council where it works to block U.N. Resolution 1373, designed to encourage states to combat terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Defying all measures of reason, Syria denies any involvement with terrorism.
Another example of the up-is-down babble coming out of the United Nations is the fact that Libya, a despotic rogue state and terrorist breeding ground, now chairs the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Other members include China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
Cuba, which has been in the news for gross human rights violations involving kangaroo-court executions and imprisonment of librarians, journalists and political dissenters, was recently re-elected to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
The delegate from Cuba's repressive regime on the commission called for sanctions against the United States for "massive and flagrant violations of human rights."
Sudan, a country that practices slavery, torture and routine mutilation of its citizens, recently had U.N. reports of its abuses dropped thanks to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
Also recently, the same commission sanctioned the use of "all available means including armed struggle" against Israel. The U.N. human rights commission approved suicide bombings and terrorism.