Monday, December 20, 2004

Kofi

A liberal argument for the removal of Kofi - citing the two genocides on his watch, in which he essentially ordered the UN to stand down in the face of atrocities the UN was set up to stop.

We might want to include the Iraq infractions here...not as genocides necessarily, although you can make an argument for Saddam's massacres of the Kurds as such, but moreso as being an impotent organization that wasn't able to make it's members states feel safe - the US, the UN's principal sponsor, did not feel safe entrusting our post 9/11 security to the UN. Neither, apparently, did other member states, who now feel threatened by the United States.

If the point of the UN is to bring peace-loving nations of the world together, it is failing miserably. Of course, the whole assumption is that there are peace-loving nations...

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