Human Rights: UN vs US

Considering how often I write about and for Israel, many of you must have already guessed how I feel about the United Nations. I explained in my last post that borders are there for a reason. Trying to unite nations like the United States and Iran should be like trying to fit a round peg in a very inhospitable, slightly radioactive hole. And yet, while America is slowly but surely singlehandedly liberating people in the middle east, and clearing the world of oppressive and dangerous dictators, Iran sits high and mighty on the UN's Commission on Womens' Rights; figure that one out. To say America could do more good by joining this circus any more than is necessary to keep the clowns in check, is absolutely ludicrous. Our military has done more for the people of the world than all the other nations united, and yet we're vilified to no end.

(watching this video here would fit in nicely with the flow of the piece. If you are short on time, continue below).


To illustrate, I want to tell you a story which stands on its own merits regardless of its validity. There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has pulled? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?'

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'

The French are nice, capable people too though; they send care packages and UN ambulances to Gaza for eventual use in terrorist operations. So to justify their condemnation of American military humanitarianism, liberals and Europeans have rallied behind the falsehood of the UN Human Rights Council and its woefully exaggerated abilities and desire to do good around the planet. With countries like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Libya and Cuba presiding, it baffles the mind how much time the Council devotes to condemning Israel while blatantly ignoring Saudi Arabian Shaaria Law, Pakistani nuclear threat, Libyan piracy, and Cuban communism.

With the US now to join the mix on a far grander scale, guided by Barrack Obama's deserved Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps the United States can muster a movement in condemnation of China for what it did in Tibet, or Serbia for what it did in Kosovo. In the end, however, I fear this new allegiance to and dependence on the power of international humanitarianism will limit what the US believes its personal contribution should be. And since the UN has proven its uselessness time and again, the world will be a lot worse for it.