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It is Time for the United States to Leave the United Nations
by Robert Ditmar
In light of its failure to enforce its own resolutions over the past decade, the United Nations has become nothing more than a debating society. It has outlived its usefulness and overstepped its original mission. It is time to move on.
As the United States and Britain put yet another "revision" to the deadline for Saddam to totally comply with United Nations Resolution 1441 on disarming, the evidence has compiled beyond any reasonable doubt that the U.N. is nothing but a three ring circus. The latest revision and deadline is mostly to acquiesce to the French and their puppet cheering section of Germany and Russia.
The U.N. has appeared to drop all pretense of a total commitment to backing up its own Resolution 1441. The requirements of 1441, which require that Iraq must not impede in any way its disarming, and in fact, is required to disclose, assist, not threaten hostile actions, and make available any means for inspectors to do their job, Saddam apologists at the U.N. continue playing a 12-year old game of cat and mouse. This pretentious bunch, led by the French, seem determined to allow this game to continue indefinitely, either until the Americans and British lose their patience, or until France can get Saddam's nuclear weapons program completed for full contractual payment, whichever comes first.
Resolution 1441 is unnecessary politicking in the first place, as it is simply the latest restatement of all the previous resolutions leading back to Resolution 687 in 1991. That resolution required Iraq to completely and unconditionally comply with full and open disclosure and destruction of its weapons of mass destruction. Had Iraq not agreed to 687, the cease-fire that ended the first Gulf War would not have occurred.
Since that time, there have been open and repeated violations of that and all subsequent resolutions. The most serious violation was the removal of U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998 by Iraq. Only until the United States decided that a 5-year absence was unacceptable and President Bush made a decision to complete the job the United Nations will not do itself, did Iraq decide to "invite" inspectors back into the country.
It is astonishing to see how the Iraqis, who supposedly lost the war, have been in the position of dictating terms to the U.N. over the past 12 years. The international body has proven throughout the last decade that it is powerless to back its own resolutions up. We have seen repeatedly how powerless the "world body" is in the Balkans, Kosovo, Rwanda, with radical Muslim terrorists against innocent Israelis and Americans, and Iraq.
When the Bosnian war began in 1992, U.N. "peacekeepers" simply stood by while the Serbians committed genocide against Bosnian Muslims. When Slobodan Milosevic decided to wage war against the province of Kosovo in 1999, the U.N. stood by powerless to stop the aggression. Neither could the old European powers of France and Germany, despite their geographical position to where these genocides were occurring. In the end, the only reason the Balkan conflicts have ceased and there is currently "peace" is because NATO acted to take action where the U.N. and Old Europe refused to and could not. When one considers that NATO gets almost 99.9% of its financial and military contribution from the Americans, it is safe to conclude that there is peace only because the United States committed to act to end the bloodshed by providing the military firepower to back it up.
Unlike the Balkans, where the U.S. was practically begged into action by Old Europe, even though it was not technically in our national interest, the current stonewalling by Iraq is vitally so. America is constantly being "lectured" down to by France, Germany and Russia. Old Europe, allied with "morally democratic" nations such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, and Egypt, insist that inspections will work if we just give them more time. We are told not to "rush" to war. "Let's give peace a chance," say the Saddam apologists.
We are also told by these morally "great powers" that any unilateral military action on our part, without U.N. consent, would be an aggressive abuse of power. We are told by the "enlightened" nations of Old Europe that a war against Iraq will give rise to a Arab-Muslim backlash leading to terrorism.
However 300-600 inspectors in a nation the size of California will never achieve the stated goal of disarmament to the levels required in the original Gulf War cease fire. Saddam knows this and openly laughs at the United Nation's weakness, all the while hindering the inspections. Despite the requirements of 1441, the Iraqis continue to fire upon Western warplanes enforcing no-fly zones, stonewalling inspectors with insufficient information and non-disclosure, and playing off the Western nations divisions at the U.N. for more time to continue weapons development programs.
As for the Arab-Muslim terrorist backlash, we are already under assault by a radical religion that divides the world into del-ar-Islam, the world ruled by Muslims, and del-ar-harem, the world of jihad. To these Islamic-Fascists, the latter must endure perpetual warfare until all of mankind can be brought under Islamic rule. We have already experienced this "backlash" due to weakness and inactions of the past 12 years, especially on September 11, 2001. There is not such thing as a "root cause" other than we are "infidels." Old Europe is so paralyzed with fear and indecisiveness that the French and Germans would rather appease radical Islamists at all costs, even giving up the legitimacy of international law, simply to avoid Islamist terror. However, their inactions against Iraq would allow Saddam to arm the likes of Al-Qaeda, ensuring that and organization committed to ruling del-ar-harem suffers perpetual war until Allah rules all. Inaction further emboldens Muslim terrorists. The United States cannot logically accept this Old European logic. History has proved time and again that appeasement does not work. You would think France might have figured this out by now.
Meanwhile France, Germany, Russia, and numerous nations of "moral principle" continue to gladly play the role of the ignorant fool, allowing Saddam to call the shots while paying tribute to his non-compliance.
France has finally dropped all pretense of even having intentions of ever enforcing U.N. Resolution 1441. France, Germany and Russia like to pretend that the inspectors are back in Iraq because Saddam has caved to U.N. and international "diplomacy." France does not want to accept the fact it is a totally irrelevant player on the world stage without the U.N. and is jealous of the responsible superpower the United States has become. French President Jacques Chirac and his Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin have only one objective in their foreign policy, which is to sabotage any effort by the United States at putting an end to this cat-and-mouse game. They will never acknowledge that the only reason the inspectors are inspecting anything at all in Iraq is because Saddam is now facing a massive American and British military enforcement of every resolution dating back to February 1991. And Saddam will continue to stonewall the efforts of this enforcement as long as the Old Europe's members of the U.N. play the part of clowns to the Iraqi acrobats tightrope act. When the final curtain call comes up, the clowns will leave and the American-British lion tamer's whip will be the final wrap on the performance.
It is time for the United States to work within traditional alliance systems with like-minded nations that understand and desire peace and freedom for all nations. It is time for the United States to work with a coalition of willing nations that actually believe in integrity by standing up for freedom, even if it means the use of force or actions, rather than just pretense and talk, to enforce a tyrant to comply with the terms of the cease-fire to which he originally agreed. It is time for the United States to not be party to, or support of an organization that is so weak and insignificant that every other dictator in the world watches closely to see how far they will be able to spread terror and aggression in their own parts of the "world community."
President Bush is absolutely correct when he says it is his job to protect the United States of America and its willing allies above all else. He does not need permission by an insignificant international body of irrelevant nations to dispense fair and equal justice to countries threatening America and our true allies.
So the United States can continue to deal rationally with aggressors and dangerous regimes from a position of power, it is vital that the United States move onward and upward. The first big step is to begin the process of leaving the United Nations and let the organization die on the ash-heap of history.
About the Author
Robert Ditmar is the founder and Editor of The Conservative Camp. He is also the author of this site's editorial column called IN MY OPINION. Robert's interest in politics, foreign policy, military and political history, Western religion, reading and writing is the seed that led to the development of The Conservative Camp. He has a conservative perspective on the events of the world that we live in and has an interest in helping to advance this perspective. A freelance editorial columnist who writes about historical and current political and foreign policy issues, Mr. Ditmar's articles have appeared in various conservative and occasionally liberal political and foreign policy websites and e-zines. Sites where his work has or currently appears includes American Daily.com, Anti-Subversion, Inc., Conservative Forum, Enter Stage Right, The Freedom Institute, Free Britannia, G.O.P. Central, The Intellectual Conservative, The Junto Society, The Starr Journal, and Political Pundit dot Com. As there tends to be a liberal monopoly on most media outlets, Robert saw a need for giving other fledgling conservative writers a forum to post their work to publicize the issues from a conservative worldview. He is optimistic that The Conservative Camp will succeed in this endeavor.
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