In this article, the writers suggest that the U.N. is in decline. I say the U.N. has become a anti-American left-wing political and entirely corrupt institution quickly losing any credibility at all.
Fox News
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
By James A. Phillips and Nile GardinerOpponents of the war in Iraq have used many choice words to describe the U.S.-led military action there.
Few have merit, but do any make less sense than “illegal”? Yet that is what United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called the war in an interview with the BBC, adding that “I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time.”
U.S. allies who had supported the liberation of Baghdad, including Britain, Australia, Poland, Bulgaria and Japan, immediately condemned his remarks — and rightly so. It was only the latest in a long line of blunders by Annan, whose leadership on the world stage, from Rwanda to Iraq to the Sudan, has proven a spectacular failure.
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Annan’s statement that the war was “illegal” is both false and spurious. By Annan’s logic, the 1999 U.S./British-led intervention in Kosovo, which was conducted without benefit of a Security Council resolution, also was “illegal” despite the fact that the international community supported it.
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Annan’s ill-timed comments should be seen as a poorly judged attempt to indirectly influence the U.S. presidential election.
The U.N. Secretary-General’s gratuitous comments were an extraordinarily undiplomatic and inappropriate intervention from a world figure who is supposed to be a neutral servant of the international community. They raise serious questions regarding Annan’s judgment and his suitability to continue in his post.
Moreover, Annan’s attack illustrates the insecurity running through the corridors of power (or what’s left of it) at the U.N. headquarters. Its prestige and reputation are running at an all-time low. The world body failed spectacularly to deal with the Iraqi dictatorship under Saddam Hussein, is failing to provide leadership in disarming Iran, and is weak-kneed in the face of genocide in the Sudan.
At the same time, it’s facing allegations of mismanagement and corruption relating to its administration of the Iraq Oil-for-Food Program.
The U.N. is in steep (and possibly terminal) decline, struggling for relevance in the 21st Century. Mr. Annan’s remarks only further underline his organization’s growing impotence.
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