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September 27, 2003UNITED NATIONS: ENABLER OF GENOCIDEJust as the League of Nations represented utopian thinking post World War I, so does its post World War II successor, the United Nations. Both asserted the primacy of fantasy over reality. Thus the League of Nations' assertions that peace could be negotiated with murderous thug regimes made war more likely,and so too with the UN. Just as the League of Nations had to overlook Hitler's and Mussolini's murderous aggression, so has the UN protected murderous middle eastern thug-ocracies while proclaiming its search for peace. Listening to Kofi Annan is like entering an alternate universe wherein criminals have understandable grievances and police using force against crime are condemned. Dr Kamal Mirawdeli knows whereof he writes in the Kurdistan Observer: "...The UN has never protected peace or prevented killing fields and genocide. As a matter of fact the UN, applying the excuse of sovereignty, has been criminally defending and protecting the states perpetrating genocide. If it had been left to UN, peoples of Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan would still be massacred as none of the majority of non-democratic third world states would ever vote for any UN human rights’ intervention against any “sovereign” state. What did the UN do to prevent genocide in Turkey, Rwanda and South Sudan? What has the UN done to protect human rights, cultural rights and right of self determination of the nations oppressed by Arab states such as the Kurdish nation in Iraq and Syria and Amazeghi nation in Morocco and Algiers? It is a sick joke to say the UN can protect peace and human rights in the world when Libya is the elected chair of its human rights commission. The sick joke will persist as long as the Western democracies continue to go along with the shared fantasy of the United Nations as a bridge to universal peace. Far better to confront the reality of human nature: there will always be a struggle between totalitarianism and freedom. Horsefeathers endorses Dr. Mirawdelli's suggestion that the UN be replaced by a: "...United Democratic Nations. Membership of this new body should not be open to fascist, dictatorial, repressive “sovereign” states. It should be open only to democratic states and the principle of “regime change” should replace the principle of “sovereignty” in relation to dictatorial states that violate human rights." Posted at 11:54 AM by
 
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