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Tower of Babel and Corruption


As Jed Babbin said in his book, Inside the Asylum: “The United Nations and the European Union, despite their pretensions of superiority are, in fact, morally bankrupt.” Earlier in his book he states:

“The General Assembly is broken because its principal purpose has been shoved aside in favor of political polemics designed to degrade the influence of the United States and its allies.

The Security council is broken because the alliances upon which is was founded no longer exist, and the interests of the powers that have a veto over Security Council resolutions have diverged to a point where consensus and action cannot be achieved.

The secretary-general’s office is broken because the incumbent is more interested in increasing the authority of the UN than he is in aiding its members in fighting terrorism or real threats to peace. Supporting him in this, the bureaucracy of the Secretariat is dedicated to a third world agenda that mirrors the dysfunctional General Assembly.

Many of the most important UN agencies and programs have become so corrupt that they fail in their purpose, some even to the point that they aid terrorism.”

Truly a serious indictment from a man who has been at the heart of international affairs for decades. But it isn’t merely his indictment, it is a consensus from many world authorities: Paul Johnson, British Historian, joins the fray with: “The UN is now a central problem for the world, because we take too much notice of it.”

George MacDonald Fraser wrote: There’s a point you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship” (Flashman and the Mountain of Light, Penguin, 1990). And on and on it goes.

The absolute demonstration for Americans of the treachery of the UN was the failure of France, Germany, and Russia to support the Iraqi resolution to use armed force if necessary to force Iraqi compliance with 18 UN resolutions. There was no moral dilemma here for them. It was crass and well-documented greed for the flow of money to Europeans via the Oil for Food program, and further lucrative oil contracts with Saddam in the offing. One merely has to follow the money to find out the why of their opposition.

What we have witnessed is the return to the diplomacy of the 1930s by France and Germany, and to a great extent, Russia. Put a local despot in control, keep him happy and willing to sign long-term contracts on favorable terms, and let him rule the people with an iron hand. Sound familiar? Immoral in the extreme for them to do. (No less immoral when we do the same thing, obviously.) It is exploitation in the most raw form and it directly accelerates the misery and poverty of the common people. Iraq has been a prime example of this.

Moral principles? Not in France. Not in Germany. Not in Russia. Not in the UN. It is beyond redemption.

# posted by Mannning @ 12:10 AM