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Bulldoze the U.N.

In His speech to the U.N. today, President Bush included some requisite butt-kissing ...

History will honor the high ideals of this organization. The charter states them with clarity: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.

Blah, blah, blah.

History may well honor the pretended ideals of this organization, and if so it will be a web of revisionist lies, for by all accounts the U.N. is failing miserably at every tenet of its charter.

After we danced that fruitless dance with the U.N. leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, France told us in the end that they planned to veto us all along. In that weaselly, backstabbing subterfuge the U.N. squandered its last vestige as moral arbiter. That should have forever closed all discussion in the U.S. about "U.N. approval." Hawks and doves can debate about the use of force, but no one has any more business appealing to the wishes of the U.N.

Henceforth the only thing an American President should present to the U.N. is an eviction notice: "The bulldozers and wrecking balls are on the way, I entreat you to leave the premises immediately."

PS--Probably Bush's best paragraph was this:

We're determined to destroy terror networks wherever they operate, and the United States is grateful to every nation that is helping to seize terrorist assets, track down their operatives, and disrupt their plans. We're determined to end the state sponsorship of terror, and my nation is grateful to all that participated in the liberation of Afghanistan. We're determined to prevent proliferation and to enforce the demands of the world, and my nation is grateful to the soldiers of many nations who have helped to deliver the Iraqi people from an outlaw dictator.

Posted by clark smith at September 21, 2004 12:17 PM | TrackBack