A World In Opposition

By Becky Banaszak, 10.18.2006

Sticks and stones may break your bones but nuclear bombs will kill you. In a world where terrorism is on the rise and nuclear threats are prevalent, we can’t support a governing body that opposes Americanism.

In the wake of North Korea’s defiant, alleged nuclear test, the U.N. appears to be unilaterally fed up. But talk is cheap. North Korea’s own ambassador to the U.N. made a mockery of the Chapter seven sanctions proposed by the U.S., calling them “useless.”

Things aren’t looking too good amidst opposition.

Despite the lack of council support for North Korea, both Russia and China fought for sanctions to remove the possibility of military action. In the meantime, it remains to be seen that the North Korean leader will even cooperate with U.N. regulations and scrap his nuclear weapons program.

The purpose of the U.N. is to foster global peace and friendly international relations. However, peace and friendly relations appear as a far cry from the world as witnessed in recent years, and especially the past few weeks.

Diplomats have one essential job at the U.N., to represent their country, and that job isn’t getting done. The growing trend in the world organization is that people show up for work, but they don’t do their job.

And why should they? The example of President Chavez’s September rant against Bush shows how members of the General Assembly entertain dictators who use the U.N. for personal power ambitions. Never-mind nuclear threats, global terrorism, ending world poverty, addressing the AIDS crisis, tackling human sex-trafficking or stopping genocide in Darfur (and Iraq before it). Just kick the United States out and move the U.N. headquarters to Venezuela in Mr. Chavez’s own backyard.

So what does this mean for the future of the U.N.? If the recent influx of fraud and corruption in almost every sector of the U.N. organization is any indication, then things aren’t looking too good. The list is grim indeed: human rights abuses, Iraqi food for oil scandal and Sadaam Hussein.

This kind of destruction seems to be insurmountable.

In fact, many Americans would welcome the departure of the U.N. as they have simply lost their appetite for hosting what is regarded as an increasingly chaotic and corrupt body, with no agenda other than anti-American hatred born out of envy.

What becomes of international relations when the U.S. is finally hijacked off the Human Rights Commission by the world’s most flagrant violators? When good is seen as evil and evil as good, truly delusional thinking on a collective scale begins to take hold. One need only be reminded of Hitler in the 1930s.