The UN

The UN

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Since its formation, the United Nations has never been as complacent and murderous as it has been in the last fifteen years. As an organization that was created to bring peace and stability to the world, the United Nations under the leadership of Secretary General Kofi Annan is almost the polar opposite. Let’s look at the facts.

Under Kofi Annan’s leadership, the United Nations has silently condoned uninterrupted genocide in nation-states in Africa and Southern Europe, it has allowed nuclear proliferation in Pakistan, North Korea, Iran and other as of yet unknown states, it has allowed the greatest human rights abusers in the world to control the UN Commission on Human Rights while the United States was voted off the same commission, it has provided cover for its own to perform racketeering in the oil for food scandal in alliance with Saddam Hussein, it has attempted to implement taxation against Americans and other free peoples without their consent, it has diabolically attempted to subvert US national security at every turn, it has punished the United States by running direct interference in every diplomatic and military strategy the US has pursued to confront rogue regimes, it has condoned terrorism and provided sympathy and understanding to terrorists that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, it has provided fundamentalist Islamic nation-states a venue for anti-Semitic attacks against Israel by allowing those states to openly question the proven factuality of the Holocaust and ultimately it has set the stage for conflict amongst human beings in the 21^st Century instead of helping humankind find peace with its neighbors.

The United Nations, once the greatest hope for world peace, is now the instrument of global conflict, war and suffering of human beings all over the world. The United Nations has become a dangerous anti-democratic alliance and the United States and the American people should be very wary of the collective, its motives and seen and unseen goals. The United Nations is fast becoming a house of horrors and facilitator of human misery, war and oppression.

In December, 1992, the United States made the humanitarian decision to send military forces to Somalia to help the Somali people overcome a civil war and mass starvation. Somalia was a failed state that was controlled by heavily armed gangs that were raiding relief organizations for their food supplies—this was done to use food as a weapon and to control the country since the Somali people did not have a government of their own to provide such basic services. The United States had no strategic interest in Somalia—we sent forces and material support to the country to help the Somali people.

From the beginning of the mission to Somalia, the leftist international media claimed that it would make the United States “look good”, as if the US was going into Somalia to earn points with the international community for reasons other than humanitarian ones. After the US entered the country, the media sat back and waited for blood to spill so that video footage of such bloodletting could be transmitted into American homes because it was so unnatural for a western country to care about or to be concerned about poor people in Africa. There had to be some other motive, so the media waited until conflict broke out between US troops and Somali native populations, then it began its psyop against the American people immediately claiming that the US effort was a “failure”, that the United States needed to “get out” of Somalia immediately and let the Somali people take care of their own affairs even if it meant the slaughter of an entire generation of Somalis by the hands of their own brethren. The international community felt very uncomfortable about providing relief efforts to poor nation-states because it was a dangerous new political trend that they did not agree to. Who would pay for such missions? Who would staff and fund them? The United States was breaking new ground and the United Nations wasn’t too happy about it. If the United States started a wave of humanitarian efforts in Africa, eventually US diplomacy would try to involve the UN and that meant that UN coffers would start being spent on poor people in countries that most folks living in the west couldn’t even pronounce, let alone locate on a map.

The United Nations didn’t want the United States getting involved in humanitarian actions around the world. The reason the United Nations didn’t want the US to get involved in humanitarian efforts was primarily a financial one. In Europe, the European states that watched the US deploy forces to Somalia had been riding the US mantle of protection from communism for free for decades during the Cold War. European states provided very little in terms of resources to the containment of communism in NATO compared with US expenditures in personnel and material resources. With the Berlin Wall crumbling in Europe, the last thing that Europe wanted was an America out to save the lives of poor Africans in countries like Somalia. That would require military expenditures and other money that European socialists had planned to use to convert European states into a vast socialist Utopia construct.

So as US forces were ambushed in Mogadishu, Somalia, and then their bodies were dragged through the streets by rampaging mobs of militiamen under the command of Mohammed Farrah Aideed, European politicians gave the big “I told you so” on the leftist international media television shows condemning US involvement in Somalia although those same politicians claimed the US was noble for the effort. In other words, it was a nice idea, but unworkable and a total loss, never to be attempted again. To seat the point however, something would have to be done to prevent the United States from becoming involved in unilateral humanitarian actions in Africa in the future. The socialists in the United Nations that were coveting UN coffers wanted to make sure the United States never again tried to unilaterally change the direction of the UN mandate and the UN’s institution of privilege after Somalia.

As US forces were leaving Somalia, Rwandan state radio began to transmit a call to arms. The Rwandan government saw an opportunity in the US retreat from Somalia, and Rwanda knew that they would get a green light from the United Nations for genocide since the UN wanted the US out of Somalia. The Rwandan government knew that once the state-sanctioned genocide of Tutsis commenced by the Hutus that the United States would not interfere—the US would not return to Africa. The American people would protest any decision to do that because Americans were still trying to get the images of slain US soldiers that were transmitted into their homes by the leftist media out of their minds. It was politically unpalatable to even consider sending US forces to Rwanda to stop the genocide there once it began since the US mission to Somalia was a preplanned failure by the United Nations to teach America a lesson about unilateralism. So when the genocide appeared in Rwanda soon after US forces left Somalia, the Rwandan government was correct in assuming that they could plan and perform the genocide without interference from the international community. The United Nations turned a blind eye to it even as the genocide was being documented and transmitted to the west through the media. It was a UN lesson for America—never go it alone no matter what the reason—even if it was to provide humanitarian assistance to people in danger and to save as many of their lives as possible given the resources available.

The controlled genocide of folks in Bosnia-Herzegovina was a similar situation. The UN didn’t want to get involved. Northern European nation-states protected their socialist economies from massive influxes of refugees by shutting down their borders, sealing the fates of hundreds of thousands of people in Sarajevo. The United States eventually forced NATO involvement to turn that war off, but simmering issues could reignite it at any time in the future. In Sudan today, millions of people are in danger of dying in genocide yet again, and the UN only recently has begun to get involved in a limited way. Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have already died.

In the Cold War, the United Nations was an organization that worked with the United States to save the world from communist expansionism and oppression. Today, the United Nations is nothing more than an institution of privilege filled with unelected and tremendously overpaid bureaucrats that collaborate as to how they can meddle and interfere with US diplomatic and national security policy. The UN has become a corrupt organization that uses one gentle hand to demand payments from the US Treasury to finance it, while at the same time shaking its other angry hand to prevent the United States from acting unilaterally as a sovereign state system. The pattern of interference and hostility from the United Nations towards the United States is reaching legendary status. These are just a few of many examples of how the United Nations has used its resources to hurt US diplomacy and security, while at the same time the UN claims that it is working in humanity’s best interests to achieve global peace:

In 1992, the United States deployed military forces to Somalia to save the Somali people from genocide. The United Nations provided little assistance to the effort, and then stood by and watched the Rwandan genocide without lifting a finger to stop it. This was done to make the US think twice about acting unilaterally ever again.

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, the United Nations provided no assistance to the folks being slaughtered in Sarajevo or elsewhere in the region until the United States forced NATO to act.

In Iraq, the UN Oil for Food Program was being looted by UN employees instead of having that valuable assistance going directly to the Iraqi people. Saddam Hussein was even bribing UN employees with oil contracts to help the Iraqi dictator remain in power. Since the bribery scheme existed, the UN had an interest in keeping Saddam Hussein in power because the organization was profiting from it, while the United States was seeking ways to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

North Korea demanded the removal of all UN nuclear inspectors from their country and the UN complied with little resistance. North Korea then enriched Uranium using fuel rods that UN personnel were previously hired to monitor. When the North Koreans were finished enriching the Uranium they constructed nuclear weapons with it. Those nuclear weapons are now pointed at countries like South Korea, Japan and even the United States.

Pakistan built its own nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles against UN mandates.

Iran has repeatedly declared that it is going to go ahead and continue its nuclear research program regardless of what the UN says about it. Iran is on a planned course to build nuclear weapons. Iran has also told the international community that Israel will be wiped off the face of the Earth and that the United States will “disappear”.

As Iran was kicking off its Holocaust denial conference today, Kofi Annan was giving his farewell speech as the Secretary General of the United Nations. In the speech Annan declared that President Truman said that it was the responsibility of powerful states to serve the people of the world, not to dominate them. The United States has tried to serve the peoples of the world since Kofi Annan took over the leadership post of the United Nations and the US has been endlessly critiqued and attacked for doing so.

It is remarkable however that Kofi Annan would hold up Truman as the model of serving the “people”, since Truman had to order the dropping of atomic bombs on cities to restore the global order—an act that necessitated the formation of the United Nations itself. Even more remarkable is the UN allowing rogue regimes like Iran to research and develop their own nuclear weapons, greatly increasing the chances that such weapons will be used again.

Under Kofi Annan’s leadership of the United Nations, the global order has deteriorated, rogue regimes have built or are building nuclear weapons, genocide is commonplace and the United States and Great Britain are nearly alone in the transnational war against terrorism.

That is no legacy to be proud of for the outbound Secretary General.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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