| In 1945, after World War II, after the Holocaust, at a | | | | resolution. |
| moment of extreme moral quality, the U.N. was | | | | - The U.N. Failed to prevent the 1994 Rwandan |
| founded. The alliance, based on shared principles, | | | | genocide, which resulted in the killings of nearly a |
| grew out of a military alliance with the aim to combat | | | | million people, due to the refusal of the security |
| aggressors and defend human rights. At that | | | | council members to approve any necessary military |
| moment, Democratic States had a considerable | | | | action. The violence and its memory continued to |
| majority. | | | | affect the countries in the region. Both the First |
| At the moment however, dictatorships and third | | | | Congo War and Second Congo Wars trace their |
| world countries have a large majority in the Council | | | | origins to the genocide, and it continued to be a |
| and the Western Democracies are constantly are | | | | reference point for the Burundian Civil War. |
| voted down. Consequently, many resolutions are | | | | - Clinton 1996 urged for action on the Iraqi problem, |
| undermining the democratic principles and the living up | | | | but France, China and Russia blocked decisive action. |
| to the priniciples of human rights. Furthermore, for | | | | Richard Butler chief U.N. weapon's inspector, warned |
| the sake of impartiality, the U.N. makes never | | | | several times against Sadam Hussein's ambitions, he |
| distiction between aggressor and defender and moral | | | | was however fired by coffee Anan. Butler was |
| quality is not longer taken into consideration. Fact is | | | | replaced by a weaker figure that showed more |
| however, that even since its foundation, the U.N. | | | | respect to the Sadam-regime. |
| failed. Below you can find exaples where the U.N. | | | | - Concerning the war between Iran and Iraq, the U.N. |
| failed in its duties. | | | | just made a resolution refraining both countries |
| - In 1948, the Arab armies invaded the new State of | | | | immediately from any use of force, without ordering |
| Israel. This act of violence by the Arabs, was | | | | Iraq to withdraw his army out of Iran. Although Iraq |
| recognized as a clear case of aggression. The U.N. | | | | was undoubtedly the aggressor, U.N.'s moral |
| requested a cease-fire, without making the distinction | | | | equivalence made no difference between aggressor |
| between attackers and defenders. Palestine was | | | | and defender. |
| partitioned in an Israeli State, a Palestinian State and | | | | - Saddam's genocide attempt, with Chemical |
| Jerusalem was internationalized . In the end, the | | | | weapons, against the Kurds. The U.N. did nothing; it |
| aggressors were rewarded. | | | | was the U.S. and the U.K. who defended the Kurds |
| - In October 1962, with the news of the confirmed | | | | outside the U.N. |
| photographic evidence of Soviet missile bases in | | | | - 1996, the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, |
| Cuba, President Kennedy started the naval quarantine | | | | originally conceived as a means of providing |
| around Cuba without the potentially time-consuming | | | | humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people, was subverted |
| appeal to the United Nations. | | | | by Saddam Hussein's regime and manipulated to help |
| - In the 1970's, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge leader, killed | | | | prop up the Iraqi dictator. Saddam's dictatorship was |
| over 1.7 million of civilians. U.N. secretary General | | | | able to siphon off an estimated $10 billion from the |
| Perez de Quelliar insisted on protecting the Khmer | | | | Oil-for-Food program through oil smuggling and |
| Rouge. Pot was not summond before the tribunal of | | | | systematic thievery, by demanding illegal payments |
| The Heaghe. The aggression stopped when Vietnam | | | | from companies buying Iraqi oil, and through |
| invaded Cambodia, also without first going to the U.N. | | | | kickbacks from those selling goods to Iraq, all under |
| The war against Israel: | | | | the noses of U.N.. The members of the U.N. staff |
| - In November 1975, the U.N. ruled that Zionism was | | | | administering the program have been accused of |
| a form of racism. The U.N. voted 152/1, to call on | | | | gross incompetence, mismanagement, and complicity |
| Israel to rescind a resolution declaring Jerusalem its | | | | with the Iraqi regime in perpetrating the biggest |
| capital. | | | | scandal in U.N. history. The former director, Benon |
| - In 1991, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir | | | | Sevan had accepted bribes from the Iraqi regime. |
| commissioned an analysis of U.N. voting towards | | | | Also implicated in the scandal is Kofi Annan's son Kojo |
| Israel. From 1967 to 1988, the Security Council | | | | Annan, alleged to have illegally procured U.N. |
| passed 88 resolutions directly against Israel, zero | | | | Oil-for-Food contracts on behalf of the Swiss |
| resolutions criticized or opposed the actions or | | | | company Coctecna. |
| perceived interests of an Arab state or body, | | | | - U.N. International criminal Court: the Court came into |
| including the PLO. Israel was condemned 49 times, | | | | being on April 11, 2002. The first to come under |
| Arab countries however, not once. In the General | | | | investigation for possible war crimes charges was not |
| Assembly, 429 anti-Israel resolutions were passed in | | | | Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Ladin or Robert Mugabe, |
| that span. Israel was condemned 321 times; Arab | | | | no, unbelievable but true, it was Tony Blair! |
| nations not once. | | | | - 2001, A few days before Arab terrorists attacked |
| - The U.N. Human Rights Commission now includes | | | | the U.S. on September 11, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi |
| Zimbabwe, China, Ukraine, Algeria, Bahrain, Congo, | | | | Annan was in Durban, South Africa, to attend a U.N. |
| Libya, Sudan, Russia, Syria, Uganda and Vietnam; not | | | | world conference on racism. An event that showed |
| exactly good examples of civil liberty. In April 2002, | | | | an undisguised anti-Americanism. Delegates from Arab |
| the commission passed a (pro-terrorist) resolution | | | | and Third World dictatorships as well as terrorist |
| condoning "armed struggle" to establish a Palestinian | | | | states vilified the United States and the West and |
| state. | | | | demanded "reparations" for slavery. Among the |
| - "To the Israelis I say: You must end the illegal | | | | nations, demanding slave reparations was Sudan, a |
| occupation," Annan said, following a long-standing U.N. | | | | nation where slavery is still practiced. The Durban |
| agenda. "More urgently, you must stop the bombing | | | | conference was hosted by South African President |
| of civilian areas, the assassinations, and the | | | | Thabo Mbeki, a former leader of the African National |
| unnecessary use of lethal force, the demolitions, and | | | | Congress (ANC), a communist-dominated terrorist |
| the daily humiliations of ordinary Palestinians." No word | | | | group. During the 1980s the ANC slaughtered |
| was however said about the humiliation of Israelis | | | | thousands of black South Africans. Yet, Annan |
| who hide in their homes in fear of suicide bombers. | | | | described the ANC's South Africa as "a beacon of |
| Annan ignored the action of gunmen that murder | | | | enlightenment for the entire world". The only |
| five-year old girls in cold blood, and of teenage | | | | conclusion of the conference was branding Israel a |
| bombers programmed to indiscriminately kill Jews. | | | | "racist apartheid state guilty of systematic war |
| The word terrorism or suicide bomber was not even | | | | crimes, acts of genocide, and ethnic cleansing." |
| mentioned. | | | | Conclusion: |
| - In Somalia 1993, the U.N. failed to successfully | | | | The United Nations, an alliance where Syria, one of |
| deliver food to starving people in Somalia. Local | | | | the main state-sponsors of terrorist organizations is |
| warlords instead usually seized the food. A US/U.N. | | | | elected to the U.N. security council for a two-year |
| attempt to apprehend the warlords seizing these | | | | term. Soon resolutions will be approved saying that |
| shipments resulted in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu. | | | | military aggression only can happen between |
| On October 3, 1993 Somali men, women and children | | | | uniformed opponents, in this way excluding terrorism |
| armed with automatic weapons and rocket propelled | | | | from the competence of the Council. Systematically, |
| grenades ambushed elite units of the U.S. Army. | | | | the rules are changed in a way that genocide will be |
| Approximately 1000 Somali militiamen and civilians lost | | | | considered as internal affairs of the respective states. |
| their lives in the battle, with injuries to another | | | | As I already indicated in my previous articles and on |
| 3000-4000. More definitely, 18 American soldiers died, | | | | my website, I am an advocate of a strong "Western |
| and 73 were wounded. | | | | Alliance". The best the West can do is step out of |
| - Srebrenica massacre 1993. Dutch U.N. troops stood | | | | the United Nations and found a new Council, e.g. "The |
| by when Serbians under General Ratko Mladic | | | | Western Democratic Allied Nations" and actions |
| slaughtered more than 7000 Muslims Bosnians in | | | | should be taken independent of the decisions of the |
| Srebrenica. The Dutch troops pulled out and let it | | | | U.N. Actions according the principles of the new |
| happen after refusal of air support by a U.N. General. | | | | Council, Democratic decisions, morally well considered, |
| The enclave was a "safe area" under U.N. protection. | | | | with distinction between aggressor and defender and |
| The Dutch Government fell about the matter, but at | | | | considering Human Rights. The "war on terror" must |
| the U.N. there were no resignations. | | | | be continued resolutely. |
| The conflict escalated and fights in Kosovo and | | | | Shortly after the Israeli raid on Entebbe, the |
| Macedonia followed. President Clinton together with | | | | American President Ford made a wise declaration: |
| Nato defended the Kosovars against the Serbian | | | | "Freedom is a value which must be fought for in |
| army, this time without a U.N. Security Council | | | | every generation". |