U.N. Madness
Dear Editor
U.N. credibility has been severely challenged in recent years with the corruption revealed in the Iraq Oil-For Food program and the current intertia in deploying adequate troops to Darfar where violence continues and where over the past three years an estimated 200,000 people have been killed and millions forced from their homes.
The recent 61st session of the U.N. did little to restore confidence in the ever increasingly ineffective organization that has become the world’s largest bureaucracy. The antics of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his new found friend Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were enough to send shivers up any thinking person’s spine. Chavez called President Bush “the devil” and joked about smelling sulfur left over from Bush’s appearance two days before which earned him some inappropriate laughter from conference delegates.
Then there was the spectacle of President Ahmadineajad trying to convince the UN that his nukes are peaceful. This is the same man who has repeatedly called for the genocidal extinction of the State of Israel and calls America the “Great Satan.” Ahmadineajad spoke eloquently about “justice” yet staunchly upholds Shari’ah law in Iran where sixteen year old girls are sentenced to death for rape, women beheaded for sexual relations out of wedlock and young children crippled for stealing a loaf of bread.
The U.N. has failed to grasp that we are indeed in a great clash of civilizations and that no matter how much we may prefer to think otherwise there are those who are dead serious about the destruction of Western civilization itself.
Gerald R Hall
Nanoose Bay, B.C.
