Track-A-’Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

No sooner than a leaked IAEA report – anemically entitled “Possible Military Dimensions of Iran’s Nuclear Program” – states that Iran has “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” nuclear weapon, does the outgoing head of the IAEA then conversely announce that “Israel is [the] number one threat to [the] Middle East.“

Nothing can be more revealing as to the dysfunction, inadequacy and impotence of the IAEA. Read the rest of this entry »

Wow, I’m so glad that the UN exists, despite the opinions of nay-sayers like the United States.  Meanies!

If I were a citizen of a Third World country (sorry, sorry, I mean Lesser Developed County…), then I’d definitely want the UN’s help.

Unless I were Somalian, where UN workers are stealing food from starving children.

Or North Korean, where UN officials were aiding and abetting the Dear Leader’s counterfeit dollar scam.

Or (Democratic Republic) Congolese, where UN staff engaged in acts of pedophilia, rape and prostitution.

Or Iraqi, where top UN officials (including then-Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo, yay!) conspired to allow Saddam Hussein to siphon money off the Oil-for-Food program to purchase weapons instead of humanitarian goods.

Or Rwandan, where the UN stood by and watched genocide that even eclipses the Holocaust in certain aspects.

Or Darfurian, where the UN, learning nothing from Rwanda, has still avoided doing anything substantive.

Or female/minority/non-Muslim in the Arab world, where freedom of speech is coming increasingly under threat from idiotic UN resolutions.

Or Afghan, where money intended for roads, schools and clinics, etc, (y’know, boring stuff) was instead pilfered by soulless UN apparatchniks.

Or Zimbabwean, where the UN settles for proposing, but not actually passing, ever more worthless resolutions.

But the UN means well, after all (in a stiflingly conformist type of way), and it’s the thought that counts…

[This is the Neverending Story of blog posts, so please feel free to add to the list in the comments section.]

Yay!  Yay!  Thrice yay!

America has rejoined the UNHRC, safe in the knowledge that her very presence and niceness alone will be enough to convince murderous leaders of the errors of their ways.

Surely it is now only a matter of time before President Obama nices the world’s dictators, tyrants and despots into line.

He will grin and he will laugh and he will bump fists and then all will be well.

Except…

Aren’t Cuba, Saudi Arabia and China also members?

And wasn’t it created in 2006 to replace a body whose vast uselessness it is quickly replicating?

And hasn’t it done almost nothing since then except to focus obsessively on Israel (at the expense of places like Darfur)?

Whoops, there I go again – being all realistic really does ruin the hope’n'change.

Don’t let other people tell you that the club of tyrants known as the United Nations is useless.

It is beyond that.  It is actively harmful to freedom and democracy.

Its latest proud display of inadequacy is mooting further sanctions on Iran.

So what?

Even if China and Russia (and France – you can never take the vote of that psychotically anti-American-and-anti-British-for-saving-us-in-both-World-Wars nation for granted) agree, they’ll flout implementation, reducing the policy to worthlessness.

Sanctions are never effective.  All they do is allow feeble politicians to claim that they are taking action on the issue and avoid the need to come up with anything more creative or original.

Not that my solution would be particularly innovative – just put Ahmadinejad’s and Khamenei’s heads in the way of some nice, smooth sniper bullets…

The liberal democratic world, anyway.

As for the rest, phht, like it matters.  Get back to me in century or two, when you decide that your people are better listened to than killed.

The UN Human Rights Council, ever striving to prove just how irrelevant it can be, has accepted a proposal by Islamic nations urging the passage of laws around the world to protect religion from criticism.

Don’t be taken in by the wording.  Religion in this instance means “Islam” and the resolution is nothing but an attack against free speech.

Things are really getting heated up at the UN, though.  The overall body throws down the gauntlet, trying to rehabilitate the reputation of the League of Nations by itself becoming the most dysfunctional IO to have ever existed.

And now the UNHRC is competing for the title.  Things can only get worse.