Arabs Rebuff Ban’s Plan To Aid Darfur
Secretary-General Ban’s attempt this week to marshal international help for Darfur victims suffered serious setbacks as an Arab League summit in Riyadh, as well as at the U.N.’s own Human Rights Council, declined to exert any pressure on Khartoum.
George Orwell criticized the appeasement of dictators during the 1930s by British political leaders. He disdained “the lies and betrayals of those years, the cynical abandonment of one ally after another … the flat refusal to believe that the dictators meant war even when they shouted it from the rooftops.”
[..] In the 1930s, the leader of Poland, Josef Pilsudski, accurately foresaw what Hitler intended for Poland and begged the great powers of Europe to intervene. For a war weary Europe, though, peace with Hitler and Mussolini was preferable to war, no matter what those fascists said.
U.S. Iraq Role Is Called Illegal by Saudi King
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia told Arab leaders on Wednesday that the American occupation of Iraq was illegal and warned that unless Arab governments settled their differences, foreign powers like the United States would continue to dictate the region’s politics.
Thank you for your boldness. The world needs more of you. I am not a citizen of the United States but as a citizen of planet Earth I believe I have the right to agree wholeheartedly with your comment and would urge your political leadership to wake up and smell the coffee. Blessings. wtmurphy@gmail.com
The UN is an absolutely reprehensible, morally depraved organization run by a block of oppressive dictatorships, despots and terrorists. They could not even pass a watered down proposal against the vile Sudanese regime which is committing genocide. Yet there is no hesitation to pass resolution after resolution against Israel. There is no reason that the tax dollars of decent Americans should go to fund this cesspool. What will it take to get this place shut-down and removed from American soil. The American people must demand our government stop funding the UN, as well as demand it be moved out of America. It is an affront to the American people and our cherished values. The UN represents the antithesis of what America stands for. Some sort of movement must be created for the purpose of getting rid of the UN and perhaps replacing it with a coalition of free nations.