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 Never before in the history of the United Nations has a U.S. sitting president taken over the chairing of the UN Security Council — until now; welcome to the new order of things under President Barack Obama as he solidifies the promotion of his personal philosophies in plain sight.
The world’s leaders will be convening for a meeting of the UN General Assembly next week — September 23-25 — in Turtle Bay, New York. UN Ambassador Susan Rice will not be chairing the UN’s Security Council — this is a rotating presidency — as expected and as usual. Instead our country’s leader will sit at the table — five seats down from Muammar Qaddafi. (Ironically, Libya now holds the presidency of the UN General Assembly, so Qaddafi will be often front and center.)
At a press conference, Ambassador Rice told reporters that the Security Council session agenda, set by the president, will “focus on nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament broadly, and not on any particular countries. Key areas to be highlighted will include arms control and nuclear disarmament, and strengthening the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] regime, and denying and disrupting trafficking in and the securing of nuclear materials." Nuclear non-prolliferation was to be expected, but the disarmament portion has been a surprise to even hardened media types.
Rice added, “We also have . . . three sanctions regimes that are up for regular review, chaired by the heads of the sanctions committees. We have Sudan, Iran and North Korea, and these are, I expect, likely to be uneventful and routine considerations of these various regimes.” When questioned about some of North Korea’s recent activities she rather fluttered, “We are simply receiving . . . a regularly scheduled update. . . . This is not an opportunity to review or revisit the nature of either of those regimes.”
So when is, Ms Rice? Isn’t this what the United Nations claims to be all about? Isn’t this why the UN exists — to promote world peace? Wouldn’t this be a good time to lay the cards out on the table with rogue states?
This weak-kneed strategy has been described in an article on National Review Online as the current presidential administration’s “group-hug theory of diplomacy.” In addition, National Review sees this presidential move as a bit of a dangerous gambit that will not boost the president’s image in the least with the American public. He may lose more than he bargained for as he not only panders to but protects those countries that have dismal human rights records, embrace communism, etc.
Other items on the docket include Obama’s attendance at a climate change summit on Tuesday, and his address to the General Assembly upon its opening.
But it’s behind the scenes where plans are laid and deals are struck. President Obama will be hosting a lunch for leaders from sub-Saharan Africa to “promote economic and social development,” Rice also announced. He will also host a meeting of all those countries that contribute police and troops to the UN’s peacekeeping operations, an opportunity to recognize, Rice offered, the “often largely unheralded contributions,” that “are doing essential work to build peace and security in fragile situations.” I wonder if they’ll talk about the UN peacekeeping atrocities?
To show just what a paralyzed failure they are in combating any injustice, attack, violence, or war, Hillary Clinton will preside over a meeting at the end of the month to strengthen a previous UN resolution that condemned sexual violence against women. These are all just empty words to the women and young girls and young boys who have been savagely raped, beaten, and even killed, something that occurs on a massive scale in some war-torn African countries and particularly where the UN has a presence.
This call to strengthen a previous resolution means that UN resolutions hold no authority whatsoever. It was in 2002 that then-Secretary of State Colin Powell called for more human rights monitors in the Congo. A report in 2005 showed that nothing had changed for the better in the Congo. And now in 2009, the UN and its adherents are still playing the compassion game, saying something needs to be done, while they continue to contribute to the problem and man's inhumanity toward man.
Not quite done with the media opportunity to promote what most Americans have already decided is the most preposterous, ill-conceived and doomed-to-failure global organization on the planet, Rice went on to say, “This is an opportunity for the United States to underscore the value we see in this institution, as well as to highlight areas where we hope and expect its performance can be improved.”
More of that hope and change we’ve come to ignore or dismiss as sheer rhetoric and absolute nonsense. But the outcome, no matter what it is, must be propagandized, and even glorified, in advance.
Get U.S. out of the UN.
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