THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume VI, Issue # 268, December 23, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
SPEAKING OUT AGAINST THE UNITED NATIONS:
WELCOME TO KOOKVILLE!
By Alan Caruba
INCREASING AMERICAN SENTIMENT AGAINST THE UNITED NATIONS & IN FAVOR OF DUMPING THAT INTERNATIONAL
CESSPOOL OF ANTI-AMERICANISM, CORRUPTION, & INCOMPETENCE -- WELCOME TO THE EXISTING & GROWING MAJORITY OF
AMERICANS WHO THINK THAT IT IS HIGH TIME TO WITHDRAW FROM THE UNITED NATIONS & FIND OTHER MEANS TO
ADDRESS THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS, UNILATERALLY, BILATERALLY, & EFFECTIVELY
FULL STORY:
There was a time when, if you wrote or spoke out against the United Nations, you would be dismissed as some Rightwing extremist
kook, a nutcase who saw conspiracies or was some kind of isolationist who didn’t understand the need for an international forum
where the problems of the world could be resolved without resort to warfare.
Well, friend, welcome to Kookville! Turns out that the United Nations is not simply incapable of stopping wars and genocides, it is so
utterly corrupt that it needs to be eliminated entirely in the hope that the many other existing international organizations, treaties, and
unilateral and bilateral relations can be allowed to do what the UN will not and cannot.
Hopefully, 2005 will be the year that historians will mark as the one in which this bloated international criminal conspiracy implodes
from its own dead weight.
This is not a new thought to me, but it resurfaced as I read an October 9 news article about “a tough new anti-terrorism resolution
aimed at stemming attacks on civilians by denying terrorists safe havens, weapons, financial resources, and freedom of movement.”
Introduced by the Russian Federation, it was unanimously passed by the UN Security Council. It was described as strengthening the
“essential coordinating role of the United Nations in the international campaign against the terrorist threat.”
This is the same United Nations that did nothing when Red China invaded and occupied Tibet. And then gave Taiwan’s seat to Red
China.
This is the same United Nations that stood by while Rwanda went about the business of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of
innocent civilians.
This is the same United Nations that has been unable to stop the Sudan from conducting genocide against more than a million of its
Christian citizens. And Sudan is a member of the UN Human Rights Commission!
This is the same United Nations that has been unable to persuade Syria to withdraw its occupation troops from Lebanon.
This is the same United Nations that has stood by, for years, as the Palestinians waged a terrorist campaign against the Israelis and
then chided the Israelis for building a fence as a means to defend themselves.
This is the same United Nations that needed a coalition led by the United States of America to force Iraq to withdraw from its invasion
of Kuwait, and then spent twelve years passing one useless resolution after another to get Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to disarm. After its
Oil-for-Food administrators and key members of its Security Council wallowed in corruption, it faintly blessed the U.S. effort to remove
an important base for terrorist planning, training, and funding. And remove an evil dictator from power.
This is the same United Nations that needed the United States of America to intervene when the North Koreans invaded South Korea
in the 1950s and whose atomic energy agency has been unable to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. Now, Iran is
thumbing its nose at the UN. It’s not nuclear proliferation that is the problem; it’s which country is led by people deemed most likely
to use these weapons. The mere prospect of a nuclear exchange drove Pakistan and India to the table to resolve longtime conflicts.
And, yes, this was the United Nations that stood by while the United States pursued a noble, but ill-fated war against the North
Vietnamese, after they invaded South Vietnam.
The United Nations has been unable to respond to outbreaks of violence in Haiti, Somalia, Cambodia and Kosovo, to name just a few
places where it has demonstrated its ineptitude.
It is the same United Nations that is trying to cover up the biggest scandal in history, the Oil-For-Food program it administered -- the
program which put billions into the hands of Saddam Hussein, allowing him to bribe France, China and Russia, among others, to sell
armaments to Iraq, expensive armaments he bought while Iraqi citizens were dying from malnutrition, disease and the butchery
characteristic of Saddam’s regime.
As the scholar Jeremy A. Rabkin points out, “The Security Council has never authorized outside military intervention solely to
protect people from slaughter at the hands of their own government.”
Now, three years since 9-11, an event that changed not just the United States, but alerted the entire world to the threat posed by an
organization that is not a nation, but a group of fanatics dedicated to forcibly imposing Islam on the entire world, the Security
Council has passed another useless resolution, vowing to do something about the Islamist Jihad that is being waged against the
civilized world.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has been largely sustained by the nearly twenty-five percent of its annual budget paid by the
United States, plus the $1.4 billion the U.S.A. gives to United Nations’ programs and agencies. U.S. taxpayers fund more of the
UN’s activities than all of the other 177 member nations. At the same time, the vast majority of the recipients of U.S. foreign aid
routinely vote against the policies of the United States. Most of those opposing U.S. initiatives come from Africa and the Middle
East.
Since the founding of the United Nations in 1945, there have been 291 wars resulting in 22 million deaths. The U.S. Department of
State lists 36 terrorist organizations operating with impunity in at least 60 UN member-nations. Fully 102 of 191 member-nations do
not have completely free and democratic governments. Forty-seven member-nations are dictatorships and the UN roster includes
six terrorist states.
A Gallup poll in September, 2003, found that sixty percent of Americans said the UN was doing “a poor job.” It’s not just doing a
poor job; it is actively seeking to undermine the concept of sovereignty for every nation in the world. It is actively seeking to
become a world government. It wants to impose its own taxes. It wants its own military force. It wants to ban ownership of guns.
It wants control of the world’s oceans and seas. Its Kyoto Protocol will seek to impose limits on the use of various forms of energy
vital to industrialized nations, while exempting some, like China and India.
There are elements of the United Nations that are doing some good work. It has helped refugees. Its World Health Organization
presumably tries to improve conditions. There are, I’m sure, other examples, but, overall, the UN is a cesspool of corruption and
the nexus of evil that blithely ignores its original mandates.
So, if by now you have been or are ready to join the rest of us kooks who want the U.S.A. to withdraw its support, welcome to
Kookville. Welcome to the existing and growing majority of Americans who think it’s time to withdraw from the United Nations
and find other means to address the world’s problems, unilaterally, bilaterally, and effectively.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The United Nations & Its Agencies
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center,
and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly
column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center
(www.anxietycenter.com). A compilation of his past columns, entitled Warning Signs, is published by Merril Press. In addition
to Warning Signs, Caruba is the author of A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam and The United Nations vs. the United States,
both of which are available from the National Anxiety Center, 28 West Third Street, Apartment 1321, South Orange, New Jersey, 07079.
Copyright 2004 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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