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Posted on 04/28/2002 6:46:51 PM PDT by XBob
National Catholic Reporter
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1141/7_35/53460476/p1/article.jhtml
Annan: `Peace is never a perfect achievement'.(United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan)(Brief Article)
Author/s: Patricia Lefevere
Issue: Dec 11, 1998
Human rights cannot be protected where there is no peace. No one knows that better than United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who came to his new post in 1996 after serving as U.N. undersecretary general for peacekeeping operations.
Annan spoke Nov. 17 at a ceremony in the chapel of the Church Center of the United Nations where he received the World Methodist Peace Award.
Annan pointed to two 50th anniversaries at the world body this year -- that of the U.N. peacekeeping mission and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
When peacekeepers were sent onto the battlefield under a new flag in 1948, it was to undertake a mission without precedent in human history, Annan told the ecumenical gathering. It was an attempt "to counter violence with tolerance, might with moderation and war with peace."
Although the U.N. peacekeeping mission may not prevent all wars, it can help humanity make its future less scarred by war than in the past, Annan said, adding that peace consists of many parts. These parts -- personal security, freedom from fear and from want, the absence of war and the opportunity to exercise a free conscience without the threat of retribution -- constitute every person's human rights, he said.
Having learned from bitter experiences -- in Somalia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Kosovo, Indonesia, the Congo and elsewhere -- that the absence of peace means the absence of human rights, Annan wants human rights to become central to the U.N.'s peace-building efforts. For this to happen, peacekeeping missions must "incorporate human rights into their core activities," he said,
"We have learned that promoting human rights within a country not only assures justice within nations, but ... between them," Annan said. Human rights also promote prosperity "for they protect the free, unfettered flow of human ideas and initiatives."
Quoting Isaiah's words about "swords turned to plowshares," Annan said that the prophecy may never be more than an ideal for humanity. "If, however, in our service to the cause of the United Nations, we can help make that ideal more true than false, more promising than distant, more able to protect the innocent than embolden the guilty, we will have done our part."
Annan, who graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Edudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also attended a Methodist primary school in his native Ghana. He credited his religious teachers and scripture with instilling in him the principles that guide his life and work. Annan is a Christian, who attends a number of Protestant churches in New York, according to his staff.
He recalled that a minister in his elementary school once took a large white sheet with a black dot in the middle, draped it over the blackboard and asked the class: "What do you see?"
When they answered, "The black dot," the teacher responded, "Why only the negative? What about the vast white spaces around the black dot?" Annan said the incident taught him that there is more than one side to a story, more than one answer to a question.
He said it is critical for the U.N. secretary general "to see conflicts in all their complexity." That sometimes means "having to shake the hands of aggressors and lend our ears to voices of enmity," he said.
"Peace is never a perfect achievement," Annan said, because it follows war, suffering, hatred. "It follows the worst that man can do.
"To restore humanity from such hell requires the patience of ages, the will to see light when all is dark and hope when all is bleak," he said. It is truly the work of "those who shall run and not be weary ... those who shall walk and not faint."
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[Forget who said it but] "Those who beat their swords to ploughshares plow for those who don't."
It was in his former position that Annan stood by and did absolutely nothing while 1 million innocents were hacked and bludgeoned to death in Rwanda.
Kofi Annan is a war criminal, a vile cockroach, a globalist fascist snake of the worst order. That he won a Nobel "Peace" Prize shows the depth of dementia among his fellow Nazi judges in Norway. He should be the first person tried by the new I.C.C., and executed.
Chamberlain called the Munich Pact that chopped up Czechoslovakia, "Peace for our times." It only demonstrated that the West thought Hitler would keep his word not to start a real war, in return for the sacrifice of part of Czechoslovakia. A year later, on evidence that the West might not fight for anything, Hitler began World War II by invading the remainder of Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Fairly close to a "perfect peace" was the end of World War II in Japan and Germany. Both ended in unconditional surrender. In both the murderers and their culture were swept away. Both became modern democracies with legitimate, stable, and peaceful governments.
The kind of "peace" that Annan prefers is one made with Arafat, like the one with Hitler in 1938. Annan is either a monstrous coward, a monstrous fool, or a monstrous liar. In all events, his words are worse than worthless, they are dangerous to the future of the world.
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Isa 2:3
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Isa 2:4
And he [YHWH] shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Meanwhile the verses that pertain to this Nobel Laureate's work are in the book of Joel :
3:4
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon,[Lebanon] and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly [and] speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
Joe 3:5
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
Joe 3:6
The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Joe 3:7
Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
Joe 3:8
And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken [it].
Joe 3:9
Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
Joe 3:10
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I [am] strong.
And he [YHWH] shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people!
13 ALEF TAV
14 Commandments, Mitzvos
Re: Isaiah 2, We're going up!
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