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| Canada: UN a failure, for which there is no solution |
| 2004-05-01 |
| via Instapundit. EFL Editorial in the Globe and Mail By John Ibbitson With yesterday’s landmark speech, Paul Martin tacitly acknowledged what Canada’s foreign policy establishment has refused to accept for decades: that the United Nations is a failure, for which there is no solution. The Prime Minister’s proposed alternative is a new international body, the G-20 summit of world leaders, representative of North and South, developed and developing, rich and poor: a working group unfettered by the UN’s bureaucracy and its anachronistic Security Council. It is a bold, though perhaps unworkable plan. But however it is ultimately greeted by the world community. Mr. Martin’s proposal at least recognizes and sets out to correct a fundamental flaw in Canadian foreign policy, one that has left us hostage to a dysfunctional world body whose interests are often irrelevant to Canada’s. Da-yum! Preach it, brother! Read the rest at the link. Can we dare to hope the UN’s days are numbered? (Hopefully in the single digits.) |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #4 Coming from Paul Martin this appears to be a significant mean shift in government policy. The Liberals since Pearson and Trudeau have always made the UN the centerpiece of Canadian foreign policy. Martin is running a party and goverment that shares the UN predeliction for corruption and graft. With an impending election, he is putting distance between himself and his international brothers to avoid campaign comparisons and embarassment. It is just another stab in the back to Jean Chretien, who has |
| Posted by: john 2004-05-01 8:47:12 AM |
| #3 Which of the 12 steps is recognizing that you have a problem? SH the important step is the one recognizing a higher power. In your case me, in the UNs case the US. |
| Posted by: Shamu 2004-05-01 8:19:51 AM |
| #2 It’s interesting, nonetheless. Which of the 12 steps is recognizing that you have a problem? It would be nice to pay for the UN to move to "a location more centralized to the world's population centers." Once they were gone we could establish a Union of Freedom in its place and maybe rename the place the Hall of Justice just for laughs. It might be easier to take positive action without every totalitarian despot trying to hamstring the spread of liberal democracy. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-01 2:26:24 AM |
| #1 Martin has to face an eection later this year. Those to the right of him now are unified under one party. Steven Harper of the Canadian Conservatives is snarling at his heels. Martin also has a domestic graft scandal to deal with. He's trying something to save his bony behind. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-01 12:54:28 AM |