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| Dealing with the Devil |
| 2006-08-08 |
| By Anne Bayefsky Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on the brink of handing President Bush the worst diplomatic disaster of his presidency. She is poised to agree to two United Nations resolutions that will tie the hands of both Israel and the United States in the war on terror and, in particular, inhibit future action on its number one state sponsor — Iran. The catastrophe is the brainchild of Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has effectively turned the United Nations into the political wing of Hezbollah. Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns are working furiously to satisfy a timetable dictated by Annan, not by the interests of the United States. How did the United Nations become the forum for producing peace between Israel and its neighbors, which have rejected the Jewish state’s existence for the past six decades? In the last three weeks, a multi-headed hydra of U.N. actors has risen to defeat Israel on the political battlefield in an unprecedented disregard of the U.N. Charter’s central tenet: the right of self-defense. Existing Security Council resolutions have for years required “the Government of Lebanon to fully extend and exercise its sole and effective authority throughout the south, [and] ensure a calm environment throughout the area, including along the Blue Line, and to exert control over the use of force on its territory and from it.” A combination of Iranian aggression, Syrian support, and Lebanese impotence and malfeasance, has actively prevented the implementation of the existing resolutions. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #8 I once defined (on these pages) Colin Powel as UN ambasador to US, guess the person changes but job description does not. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-08-08 23:43 |
| #7 Nah, they just pick a few more turds. It has gone way too far towards CAmeroon and Guinea making world policy. Somebody needs to retool whatever the mandate of the UN is and how they go about picking a reasonably strong individual with some ethics and credentials to lead the organization toward something instead of constantly "writhing in it's own waste". |
| Posted by: J. D. Lux 2006-08-08 21:25 |
| #6 Do all these useless bastards go out the door when that despicable little turd leaves in December? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-08-08 21:21 |
| #5 Kofi is a cunt (no other way to say it, sorry) |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-08-08 21:16 |
| #4 I've no problem with the UN. Just not on American soil, and with American money footing most of the bill. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-08-08 19:02 |
| #3 Pull the plug on the U.N. now. Send these useless idiots back to their home country. More than useless, they are dangerous. Get them off the welfare roster. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2006-08-08 17:48 |
| #2 Now I know why we don't declare this WW3 and be done with. The moment this becomes WW3, the UN goes the way of the League Of Nations. Years ago, many of us called for an end to the charade known as the UN. The situation has gotten worse. Please terminate the UN now. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-08-08 16:36 |
| #1 Now I have to go throw up. |
| Posted by: j. D. Lux 2006-08-08 15:23 |