Turn the Lights Out at the UN

The biggest loser in the Coalition war in Iraq is not Saddam Hussein but rather his protectors. By protectors, I mean the United Nations.

The grand globalist dream, the left’s savior, the organization that Socialists tell us is the hope of mankind showed itself for what it is: a group of self-important incompetents.

We’ve been blessed in this war on Iraq in that we’ve seen relatively few allied casualties and less civilians have probably died than in our Kosovo mission. Yet, if not for the United Nations, the toll could have been far less.

In 1991, it was pressure from the United Nations that led the first President Bush to stop the advance towards Baghdad as the US had achieved its main mission of liberating Kuwait. The result was revenge killings on those who’d taken the US promise of a revolution seriously.

After the war, Iraq’s regime could not be allowed full access to the world’s goods, so a decision was made to impose an embargo on Iraq. The embargo did hinder the regime from developing weapons of mass destruction but was devastating to the Iraqi people as well.

The UN valued a dangerous regime more than it valued the people who lived under that regime. That is why there was so much suffering over the past twelve years. The peaceniks in the United Nations could not comprehend that prolonging war for three days would have been better than the unstable peace and the fear-filled nights that Iraqi Civilians suffered for more than a decade. The deaths under Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime during the past twelve years can be laid at the feet of the United Nations.

The United Nations is a joke, a horrible and twisted joke. The United Nations passed seventeen resolutions telling Hussein to get rid of his weapons of mass destruction and they refused to enforce it. We’re taught in history class that if we’d only embraced Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations, we could have prevented the carnage of World War II. As we look at the League’s successor, we see that idea is pure balderdash.

The League of Nations would have begun passing resolutions against Hitler, demanding that he withdraw his forces from areas he didn’t. When he failed to again, bold men would stand up and suggest another resolution, which Hitler would have again ignored. The last resolution the League would have passed would have been a request for Hitler to withdraw from outside of their offices.

Has the United Nations really done anything great (other than humanitarian aid which could also be done by private relief agencies)? No. As I look throughout recent history, I have to notice that the UN has achieved little and nothing that could not have been achieved by multi-lateral action by neighboring countries and their allies.

The major atrocities that occur every day in countries like China, Sudan, and Iraq are not dealt with by the United Nations. The free world is not safer for the presence of the United Nations, far from it.

The United Nations does protect some people, however. As illustrated by the UN’s vacillation and refusal to take on Saddam Hussein, the UN has made the world safer for dictators and terrorists. If the US attacks a terrorist state like Syria, from which springs terrorists cells which terrorize Israeli civilians, we can expect Kofi Annan to be on television, deploring this “act of aggression”. Fidel Castro has no better friend than the UN. Qadhafi is so respected in the UN, he gets to head up the Human Rights Commission despite his repression of his own people.

Few organizations take more anti-American positions than the United Nations including its recent decisions to remove us from key commissions. The UN’s various summits are little more than attempts to undermine moral values (summits on women, children, and population), destroy capitalism (environmental summits), threaten the legal rights of citizens (World Criminal Court), and encroach on national sovereignty (all of the above).

UN “do-gooder” programs do little more than promote Socialism in developing nations, an economic strategy that produces human misery on a mass scale.

There is no moral, political, or foreign policy justification for remaining in the United Nations other than the fact that certain allies might step back from us if we backed out. Herein, however is the true lesson of the League of Nations. When the United States was an emerging power, its failure to join the league led to its collapse. Now that the United States is the most powerful nation on Earth, can the UN survive without its membership and support?

President Bush did the world a service when he rid it of Saddam Hussein’s regime. He ought to do it greater one by ridding it of Kofi Annan’s.

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