Paul is not as Much of an Idiot as You Think
Gross, your faith in a powerless, inefficient non-governmental organization is laughable. Even when the UN does speak up, which it rarely does because it requires everyone to agree, it doesn't enforce its own word. Even the resolutions are enforced, the UN needs the United States to enforce for them. You wanted some examples Gross, here are a couple just on Iraq that have so far been unenforced:
Resolution 688:demands that Iraq cease at once repression of its own people. Last year, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights found that tens of thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and tortured by beating and burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation and rape.
Resolutions 686 and 687:Demanded that Iraq return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands. As of last year, Kuwaiti, Saudi, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Bahraini and Omani nationals remain unaccounted for -- more than 600 people.
One American is among them.
Resolution 687 : Requires that Iraq renounce all involvement with terrorism and permit no terrorist organizations to operate in the country. In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel and Western governments.
I'm sure that Kofi Anan is a very well intentioned and nice guy, but his organization is powerless. It also acts in the interest of the wrong people. Do you think that dictators will appoint representatives who will work in the interest of their people, or the dictator? If you think that oil is influential to Bush, its influence is even greater in the United Nations. I don't need to get into details, but the United Nation has quite an appetite for passing resolutions about Israel but very little for helping the human rights of people in China or Sudan, or ending the Syrian occupation of Lebanan. I do not see how anyone can see the United Nations organization as legitimate, or worship it as you do Gross, when Sudan, where slavery is still legally practiced, is on the Human Rights Council!
Resolution 688:demands that Iraq cease at once repression of its own people. Last year, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights found that tens of thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, summary execution, and tortured by beating and burning, electric shock, starvation, mutilation and rape.
Resolutions 686 and 687:Demanded that Iraq return all prisoners from Kuwait and other lands. As of last year, Kuwaiti, Saudi, Indian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Bahraini and Omani nationals remain unaccounted for -- more than 600 people.
One American is among them.
Resolution 687 : Requires that Iraq renounce all involvement with terrorism and permit no terrorist organizations to operate in the country. In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel and Western governments.
I'm sure that Kofi Anan is a very well intentioned and nice guy, but his organization is powerless. It also acts in the interest of the wrong people. Do you think that dictators will appoint representatives who will work in the interest of their people, or the dictator? If you think that oil is influential to Bush, its influence is even greater in the United Nations. I don't need to get into details, but the United Nation has quite an appetite for passing resolutions about Israel but very little for helping the human rights of people in China or Sudan, or ending the Syrian occupation of Lebanan. I do not see how anyone can see the United Nations organization as legitimate, or worship it as you do Gross, when Sudan, where slavery is still legally practiced, is on the Human Rights Council!