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January 28, 2005
Two More Reasons to Dump the UN
What a day we have here. Not one but two new reasons why the United Nations is not only utterly useless but downright harmful. Oh, and the French are behind one of them.
France, you see, has called for a $10 billion global tax to help fight AIDS. World leaders are "mulling" the proposal. Sadly, Tony Blair seems to support the idea. If Blair has his way, the proposal will be discussed when G8 finance ministers meet next week in London.
To be sure, the chance of such a proposal being implemented is slim to none. And the UN is not directly involved in this proposal. But these things can take on a life of their own unless it is immediately squashed. Fortunately, the Bush Administration "... not inclined to support international taxation schemes," Good. I bring the UN into this because they would undoubtebly be the organization to implement such a scheme.
The irony is that, to it's credit, George Bush has done an awfully lot to combat AIDS, especially in Africa.
The Fox Guarding the Henhouse
Adding to the absurdity above, we have this;
Cuba, Zimbabwe and Saudi Arabia have been elected to a five-member panel that will decide which complaints are heard by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights at its annual meeting in Geneva this spring.You just can't make this stuff up. It goes to the heart of the problem with the UN; it is an amoral institution. Nations are simply "member states" and all are equal. The UN is sadly lacking in moral clarity.
U.S. and U.N. officials said the Working Group on Situations, which also includes Hungary and the Netherlands, will meet next month to review more than 80 complaints against dozens of countries — including the United States.
The presence in the group of what the West considers to be three of the world's worst human rights abusers has angered the Bush administration, but officials said there was little that they could have done to prevent it.
Posted by Tom at January 28, 2005 9:45 AM
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