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UN as a force for world peace? : Comments

By Rob Shilkin, published 12/1/2006

Robert Shilkin argues if Iran’s nuclear program is not halted, peace in the Middle East will be further away than ever.

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Wonderful opening! The UN’s theme for Environment Day could also have been exploited because the UN is certainly a desert when it comes thought and action. The plug should have been pulled on this ineffectual, but still interfering, organization years ago. Better still, our own hard left and totally misguided contributor to its inception, Doctor Evatt, should have had the plug pulled on him, and we could have stayed out of it.

An excellent, hard hitting article saying what must be said, but rarely is, about two failed institutions – the UN and the EU - and about the greatest threat to world peace, Iran.

Rossco,

I would like to return the complement to you by saying that your question: “Are their not benefits to Iran having a nuclear weapons program…” is the nuttiest thing I have seen on this forum for a long time.
Posted by Leigh, Thursday, 12 January 2006 1:10:12 PM
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Bravura cognitive "performance"! Robert should get a standing ovation for his in-depth article exposing both the political ineptness of the old Europeans and their malevolence against the US, as well as the "feckless" and politically feeble and corrupt UN, which by being a Tower of Babel and speaking in the separate interests of so many, misses to speak for the interests of all. That is, to prevent by all means the fanatic Islamic state of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, with the possibility that the latter "surreptitiously" could fall into the hands of the terrorists, which would pose a grave threat to Western civilization.

Go to my blog for more: http://congeorgekotzabasis.blogspot.com
Posted by Themistocles, Thursday, 12 January 2006 1:59:15 PM
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS: http://www.propagandamatrix.com/archiveun.html
Posted by BrokenSword, Thursday, 12 January 2006 4:42:39 PM
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I don't think we can expect the UN to do anything. It seems to be just an approval process. Countries feel validated going to war if the UN says ok. They feel no guilt when they don't act because the UN said not to.

The UN does much better in the area of health and humanatarian, though not a great job, a better job so very valuable organisation is some areas. Better than nothing. For sure.

But the war/peace thing..well Srebenica, Congo speak for themselves. It takes a particular interest from a major power for the UN to act. If not enough interest then who cares? Who is to blame?

Iran seems to be provoking an attack. Why? I don't know. if they wait a few years I am sure the younger generation of Iran are better equiped than any other nations to change the course of Irans future. Maybe we just need a delaying tactic as the younger ones do seem more progressive than their rulers.
Posted by Verdant, Thursday, 12 January 2006 8:53:11 PM
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“Also given that both Israel and the US has demonstrated there willingness to engage in illegal unilateral military actions and country that feels it may be a target of such action will take steps to defend itself.”

I’m sure many Jews are grateful Israel took unilateral action in the 80s to wipe out Iraq’s potential to make nuclear weapons, just like those who are sane would be grateful if Iran was never allowed to have the potential to make nukes.

“Ask yourself why should countries that have got nukes use the NNPT to stop other countries from getting them, while maintaining their own stock pile and developing new ones.”

So your argument is that, if the West has nuclear weapons- to hell with it, everyone should have them?

Blackbob- good points, but we shouldn’t hold our collective breath for the UN to do anything, that place is a collection of the least democratic nations using an international democratic forum to their advantage.
Posted by stewie, Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:02:14 PM
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Analysis by Elizabeth Kendal.

"Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), two groups whose names are synonymous with Iranian repression and terror, are making a comeback under President Ahmadinejad.

As noted in the WEA RLC News & Analysis report entitled "The Islamic Revolution is now complete" (29 August 2005), "Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has flooded the Majlis (parliament) with former Revolutionary Guards while Ayatollah Khamenei has made key changes in security structures and strategies to entrench the Revolutionary Guards' hegemony over all law enforcement agencies."
Now Iran's MPs are purging their domains of Khatami-era officials and replacing them with heavy-handed hardliners, including many former senior secret police from the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) who were complicit in the serial murders of dissidents and intellectuals that took place in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s.

President Khatami's sensitivity to international relations led to these murderers being removed from positions of public authority, but now under President Ahmadinejad they are making a comeback. For this regime, a proved track record in brutality, assassination and inflexible hard-line Islamic ideology makes an ideal prerequisite for a government job. In fact, having hands that are stained with the blood of Christian martyrs appears to be a perfect prerequisite for a senior position in the Ministry of Interior..............."
At http://www.worldevangelical.org/news/view.htm?id=275
Posted by Philo, Thursday, 12 January 2006 10:28:55 PM
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