Wednesday, December 01, 2004
The U.S. and the U.N.
What is keeping the U.S. in the U.N.?
If a major scandal was observed in a major U.S. corporation the U.S. Congress would immediately express concern, issue admonitions, call for the heads of those accountable and promise a full investigation and punishment for those responsible. Why would the Congress want to investigate an organization that they will continue to support no matter what their investigations and findings reveal? It is already quite clear that the United Nations is not United. It is becoming clearer every day there is corruption that has been going on for years and may have contributed to the global instability we are having to pay for with taxpayer money and American lives.
In view of the magnitude of the failures of the United Nations, the costs the American people have born through association and support of this organization and the fact that we have not had the support for the ideals they claim to stand for and which we agreed to, when will it be time for the United States to declare, “ We’ve had enough, we quit.” In our past we did not stand for taxation without representation and we rebelled. Why are we willing to stand for it now? In the past we required loyalty in our pursuit of defense of our nation. Why do we now look to an ineffective, openly opposed group of nations composed of the very authoritarian regimes we are trying to defeat for sanction and cooperation?
It is not because we do not know that the United Nations is corrupt, uncooperative and ineffectual. We have evidence for all of these defects. It is because we are acting like we want to belong to the group no matter the makeup, the morals or the results. We are acting like the children we admonish for not standing up against the peer group that demands allegiance. We are acting like the wimp who doesn’t want someone to not like him even if he has to denounce all that he thinks he should stand for. We are acting like the ghetto youth who doesn’t want to join the gang but is too afraid not to. In short we are acting against our ideals and who we are when we continue to support the United Nations.
The Bush Doctrine is weakened by membership in the United Nations. The “ War on Terrorism” is confounded by the compromises with terrorist regimes within the United Nations . The United Nations is an organization consisting of nations that don’t like Americans. Yet our representatives keep funding this organization as a matter of blind faith that somehow it will become something other that what it is. This blind faith goes on in spite of history, disappointments and outrageous ineffectiveness. This country was founded on the idea that we are a sovereign nation and we don’t need the love of the world to be the kind of nation where human rights are respected, where opportunity is abundant and there is an open invitation to those who want to come to our shores and live in a peaceful productive manner. The other side of this idea is we are not interested in joining with other countries to undermine our values, our ideals and our way of life. This means that if we should ( in some attempt to experiment in the impossible ) misstep and join an organization and it in fact failed to be a benefit to our welfare, we would have the courage and the sense to reject that membership. We would stand alone as we did when our brave founders stood up for themselves and did what was necessary to insure the establishment and the continuance of a nation of freedom and prosperity that the world has never seen before.
We have been a nation that has the ability and the guts to take a stand and set an example. We should not turn our back on this heritage. We should demand of our representatives that they assert this legacy and reject the United Nations as no longer worthy of our support or recognition This would send a message that we are no longer willing to give those whose actions are abhorrent to our values the benefit of the doubt and try to get along by compromising what we believe in and stand for. Should the United Nations reform and become what it claims it stands for we are free to seek membership and support such an organization. There is no evidence we can work within it and accomplish this. We need to leave and we need to leave now.
If a major scandal was observed in a major U.S. corporation the U.S. Congress would immediately express concern, issue admonitions, call for the heads of those accountable and promise a full investigation and punishment for those responsible. Why would the Congress want to investigate an organization that they will continue to support no matter what their investigations and findings reveal? It is already quite clear that the United Nations is not United. It is becoming clearer every day there is corruption that has been going on for years and may have contributed to the global instability we are having to pay for with taxpayer money and American lives.
In view of the magnitude of the failures of the United Nations, the costs the American people have born through association and support of this organization and the fact that we have not had the support for the ideals they claim to stand for and which we agreed to, when will it be time for the United States to declare, “ We’ve had enough, we quit.” In our past we did not stand for taxation without representation and we rebelled. Why are we willing to stand for it now? In the past we required loyalty in our pursuit of defense of our nation. Why do we now look to an ineffective, openly opposed group of nations composed of the very authoritarian regimes we are trying to defeat for sanction and cooperation?
It is not because we do not know that the United Nations is corrupt, uncooperative and ineffectual. We have evidence for all of these defects. It is because we are acting like we want to belong to the group no matter the makeup, the morals or the results. We are acting like the children we admonish for not standing up against the peer group that demands allegiance. We are acting like the wimp who doesn’t want someone to not like him even if he has to denounce all that he thinks he should stand for. We are acting like the ghetto youth who doesn’t want to join the gang but is too afraid not to. In short we are acting against our ideals and who we are when we continue to support the United Nations.
The Bush Doctrine is weakened by membership in the United Nations. The “ War on Terrorism” is confounded by the compromises with terrorist regimes within the United Nations . The United Nations is an organization consisting of nations that don’t like Americans. Yet our representatives keep funding this organization as a matter of blind faith that somehow it will become something other that what it is. This blind faith goes on in spite of history, disappointments and outrageous ineffectiveness. This country was founded on the idea that we are a sovereign nation and we don’t need the love of the world to be the kind of nation where human rights are respected, where opportunity is abundant and there is an open invitation to those who want to come to our shores and live in a peaceful productive manner. The other side of this idea is we are not interested in joining with other countries to undermine our values, our ideals and our way of life. This means that if we should ( in some attempt to experiment in the impossible ) misstep and join an organization and it in fact failed to be a benefit to our welfare, we would have the courage and the sense to reject that membership. We would stand alone as we did when our brave founders stood up for themselves and did what was necessary to insure the establishment and the continuance of a nation of freedom and prosperity that the world has never seen before.
We have been a nation that has the ability and the guts to take a stand and set an example. We should not turn our back on this heritage. We should demand of our representatives that they assert this legacy and reject the United Nations as no longer worthy of our support or recognition This would send a message that we are no longer willing to give those whose actions are abhorrent to our values the benefit of the doubt and try to get along by compromising what we believe in and stand for. Should the United Nations reform and become what it claims it stands for we are free to seek membership and support such an organization. There is no evidence we can work within it and accomplish this. We need to leave and we need to leave now.
