You gotta love the UN for its sheer unbridled coj€nes. The latest useless suggestion emanating from the useful idiots squatting on the banks of New York City's East River is that the U.S. close the detention centre housing foreign combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This from the United Nations Committee against Torture (UNCaT), which also suggested that the U.S. criminalize certain interrogation techniques they believe are currently in use. and while we're at it, why not give each and every detainee released a custom fitted explosives vest complete with TNT or C-4 to make it easier for the Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists to do their work.
What's so galling about the UN is the overbearing sense of moral authority their functionaries claim to have when it comes to telling the US what is right and wrong. In this case the UNCaT didn't even bother accepting an invitation to Guantanamo Bay to observe what was actually going on there. However, it should be noted that the UN's moral authority only applies to the US and does not apply to nations like North Korea or Iran, where morality is only consistent with the advancement of the state's agenda. Hence, the UN is silent when Canadian journalists are tortured and beaten to death in an Iranian prison, or when Islamic terrorists feel they would be much closer to allah if they were to kill a Western journalist, say a Jew Western journalist, by slowly cutting off his head with a dull knife and filming the entire procedure for posterity.
It's clear why the UN is constantly sniping at the U.S. in its never-ending lecture of how morally superior the rest of the world is in comparison to america. Currently the only country in the world standing in the way of a UN world coup d'etat is the United States. Without the US, the world would be under a one-world government (spelled d-i-c-t-a-t-o-r-s-h-i-p) run by some nonentity like Kofi annan and at that point human rights would be exactly what the UN says they are, as in alice in Wonderland.
While I'm certain that there is true morality in many places in the world, I am also certain that true morality in anathema to what the UN represents. The UN is the triumph of a ponderous, corrupt and ineffectual bureaucracy adrift without a moral anchor. Proof of this lies in the UN's recent and not so recent history.
One doesn't have to dig very deep to uncover corruption within the UN. Most recently, the so-called Oil For Food scandal involving Saddam Hussein and those appointed to oversee the program documented the disappearance of close to $17 billion, with some of the UN's highest levels being directly implicated. It's curious that even after the revelations about the disappearance of Oil For Food funds, no one at the UN was called to account. In fact, the UN behaved just like a certain Liberal Canadian government in its stonewalling of information pertaining to the scandal. and like that unspecified Liberal Canadian government, no members of the UN ever went to jail for their part.
To say the UN is ineffectual is to be kind. a case can be made for the UN's culpability in the deaths of over 800,000 Tutsi tribe members in Rwanda in 1994. In fact, the guilt could be laid directly at the feet of Kofi annan who was the UN's Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at that time and despite urgent pleas by Gen. Romo Dallaire who headed up the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda at that time, annan failed to act.
Finally, to say that the UN is ponderous is yet another understatement. When the Tsunami of Dec 26, 2004 hit Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia, the UN was the slowest to respond. In yet another foot-in-mouth episode for which the UN is so famous Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian affairs, was castigating the United States for being 'stingy' in donating money while the U.S. was at the disaster scene rendering urgent aid. The UN didn't even have an assessment team in place until nearly two weeks after the disaster struck.
Then there is the UN's penchant for the bizarre. allowing Cuba and China to sit on the UN Human Rights Commission and allowing Saddam Hussein's Iraq to head up the UN Disarmament Convention and holding a racist, er, anti-racism convention in Durban South africa where some of the world's most rabid racists spouted hatred against Israel and Jews are just a few examples.
any advice that the UN gives is best followed in the opposite. as such Gitmo should be kept open and the interrogation practices the UN wants to criminalize should be continued and instituted if not already in use. I think the UN's sanctimonious carping would be more palatable were it to apply it as even-handedly to the thugs in, say Darfur as they do to the US.
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