Saturday, May 12, 2007

The League of Nations
In 1945, the United Nations Organization was a noble experiment, an attempt to bring peace and stability to a world thrown into chaos by the two most horrific wars in history. Six decades later, that experiment has proven a bitter failure; here is but one of the numerous lurid exemplars of that failure: UNlink. The Commission on Sustainable Development, really? Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of south Africa. Today, it is a net importer of foodstuffs. This is the kind of sustainable development the UN wishes to foster? Zimbabwe has runaway inflation and is in an economic death spiral reminscent of Cuba after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It is morbidly ironic that the UN was founded by the powers allied against Nazi Germany, because it seems that these days the only thing the UN is good at is fomenting global anti-Semitism (see: the 2001 debacle in Durban, South Africa). If we wish to continue to see ourselves as a fundamentally moral people, the United States must sever all ties to the United Nations Organization and expell its staff and headquarters from our territory.

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