Investor’s Business Daily: Time For The U.N. To Go Home
Can I get an “Amen!” from the crowd?
This is an outstanding editorial, although I’m a bit surprised to see it in a forum like the Investor’s Business Daily:
According to Heritage Foundation fellow Brett Schaefer, these U.N. voting blocs include the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the so-called Non-Aligned Movement, and the Group of 77 developing nations (which has 130 members — not 77.) All these groups are, in fact, anti-American, anti-West and anti-free market.
“So, where the U.N. actually could have a role in advancing economic policies that enhanced freedom, that enhanced opportunity, that enhanced economic development,” former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton recently explained, “the mind-set of the U.N. itself as played out in its conference rooms and corridors is actually exactly to the contrary.”
The U.N., in short, has become a major way for nondemocratic, noncapitalist countries to siphon wealth from the wealthy countries — without doing anything that remotely looks like democratic, pro-market reform in their own countries.
It’s a long article but well worth the read. It points out the stupidity of the U.N. and its facade of being fair when in fact it’s an anti-Israel, anti-American organization.:
Again in 2006, Israel topped the list of countries subjected to human rights criticism — not China, not Zimbabwe, not Venezuela, not North Korea, not Sudan, not Cuba, places where millions have been murdered, imprisoned and denied the most basic of human rights and freedoms. (The U.S., by the way, came in fourth.)
This sick fixation on Israel and the U.S. has ruined the U.N. Yet, in 2009, it’s planning to hold its “Durban II” conference. The last conference of the type, held in the summer of 2001, was a monthlong hate-fest against both Israel and the U.S. Perhaps not coincidentally, just days after it ended the 9/11 attacks occurred.
We’ve had enough, thank you. The U.N. wastes billions each year, while corruption flourishes. It’s time for the U.S. to pull out.
Let the tyrants and bureaucrats go home. Maybe we can form a new organization based on the 89 countries classified as “fully free” by the nonpartisan human rights group, Freedom House. That would give us almost half of the U.N.’s 192 current members — a good start for a new beginning.
That U.N. building would make nice condos, don’t you think?
A salute to Pam – who has some pretty strong opinions on the subject – over at Atlas Shrugs for this one.
