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Criticisms of Security Council : Not An Impartial Arbiter
- Dictators and Double Standards Redux
-- Leave it to a UN official to compare a liberal democracy to every run of the mill, self-appointed lifetime tyrant. True, there are no good or bad nuclear weapons, for they are just things. But there are most certainly good or bad forms of government, which is why people should worry when the head of the international nuclear watchdog deflects scrutiny away from the Ayatollah's nuclear program in favor of the always-popular cause of bashing the Bush administration.
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- Final Arbiter?
-- The idea that legitimacy flows from the UN implies that the UN exists on a higher plane than that of the nation-state itself. But, of course, this is simply not true. The UN is a creature of the nation-state. It is a diplomatic construct, not some form of super-legislature or governing body.
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- One UN Resolution Too Many
-- The UN ideal still inspires many millions of people around the world. I don't happen to share the ideal myself, but I can understand and respect it. But even believers in an ideal have to admit that ideals can be abused for selfish purposes--and they ought very seriously to ask themselves whether that abuse is not precisely what is occurring now at the United Nations.
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- Order Plus Liberty
-- It's folly to trust the United Nations with nation building. Its record elsewhere - for example in Cambodia, Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Kosovo - is shameful. This is an organization whose Human Rights Commission, including its chair, boasts six countries from Freedom House's list of the world's most repressive regimes. Clearly the U.N. is morally bankrupt. Let's stop pretending its blessing confers any moral legitimacy.
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- Playing UN "Survivor"
-- Survivor is a perfect microcosm for the self-destructive nature of the recently much ballyhooed foreign-policy principle that states that only the approval of others can grant a nation’s actions moral virtue – the principle of 'multilateralism.' 'Multilateralism' is based on the ethics of altruism - preaching sacrifice as the supreme virtue, and self-interest as the lowest vice.
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- The United Nations Against Individual Rights
-- The UN's true purpose is to give Third World bullies a venue for grandstanding, to harangue Western democracies, to ensure that the world's cruelest rulers escape condemnation, and, of course, to bash Israel. There's nothing in that agenda to disqualify Libya. Or, for that matter, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, China, Syria, Sudan, or Zimbabwe -- each a notorious human-rights violator and each a commission member in good standing
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- The United Nations: A Criminal Organization
-- The United Nations is not an instrument for guarding the peace, but a criminal enterprise founded to condemn the good, and to sanction the evil. Articles are surfacing and pundits are pondering, questioning the future of the UN. To sidestep the obvious; that the UN utterly failed to have even a hint of influence during the resulting overthrow of Saddam, voices are beginning to suggest the word "reform" to make it more "workable."
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- UN Confidence Games
-- American support for tough action abroad rises when backed by the United Nations. And international support soars when gaining UN approval. Why?
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- UN Dysfunctional by Design
-- There is a good reason it is difficult to take the United Nations seriously: It is dysfunctional by design. It is cumbersome, undemocratic, and ineffective. The UN is to the world what Brussels is to the EU: A creeping supranational bureaucracy that supercedes national sovereignty in defense of what a few unscientific elites consider "the greater good". Whatever nine of the fifteen members of he security council decide becomes "international law".
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- World's Most Elaborate Insurance Policy
-- The UN props up despots, lending them legitimacy, and waging PR campaigns on their behalf. In their zero-sum worldview, wealth is a sign of guilt, not progress.
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