11.03.09
Meanwhile, as the Aquarian Totalitarian tells Poland – in a midnight phone call – that he’s reneging on missile defense
. . . Russia is pulling this.
10.13.09
Russia’s got us where it wants us
Says further Iran sanctions ain’t gonna happen. Also tells the H-word Creature that, now that it will be done on our terms, we’re ready to talk about missiles and missile defense. I cringe to think about how the discussion on Georgia went.
09.18.09
The Czech and Polish press . . .
. . . tell the tale of some bitter allies. TCM and the H-word Creature sent the worst possible signal to friends and enemies alike.
09.17.09
TCM to Putin and Ahmadinejad: Please let me be your bitch
We’re 86-ing our commitment to the Polish / Czech missile defense system.
07.06.09
The Marxist on the plane with Zelaya
. . . as the ousted constitution-disdaining Honduran president tries to return home would be Miguel D’Escoto, currently head of the UN General Assembly and longtime Sandinista, one of the nine commandantes during the first FSLN reign in the 80s.
04.11.09
The UN – one of the world’s most dangerous and hateful organizations
Ahmadinejad is set to attend Durban II.
04.06.09
They need to change the name of their damn council
Aren’t emergency sessions supposed to result in some kind of action? Not when they’re convened by the UN Security Council in response to North Korean missile tests.
Feeling more secure now?
04.05.09
A world without grown-ups
The challenge for all people who love freedom, dignity and common sense and who remember a world that made sense is to withstand the temptation to succumb to numbness. The reflexive reaction to the hourly turn of this world toward utter madness and the death of resolve is to embrace the incrementalism of it, to see it as just another day of shuffling papers at the UN or monitoring rocket trajectories in Tokyo. Ho-hum, more headlines, more shenanigans by those rascally rogue states.
With this missile launch, TCM’s response and the assured inertia of the Security Council given the strategic aims of China and Russia, however, we are witnessing the abnegation of any responsibility for order in the world. There are no grown-ups. Every one of us as individuals is on his own. Oh, for some time to come municipal law enforcement agencies will deal with those who would burglarize your home or bodily threaten you, but how long can local-level order be maintained when those who could prevent apocalypse will not do so?
I feel like I’m a fairly smart and insightful person, but I can’t for the life of me fathom how the phrase “six-party-talks” is still coming out of anyone’s mouth after this launch. The last session of such talks took place in November 2007.
It’s not just this launch, either. Pyongyang has cut its hot line with Seoul and expelled visiting South Korean industrial workers. It is holding two U.S. journalists as bargaining chips. It has miniaturized nuclear warheads for upfitting on missiles.
Human beings are fallible, limited, collectively and individually, in what they can do to influence their fellows, and unable to foresee all contingencies in a situation. There was a time, however, when some at least tried to address grave developments with proper urgency, vigor and vision. That time is no more. We shall see if God has mercy on us.
02.17.09
TCM gives Israel the middle finger
We’re going to be involved in Durban II after all. Probably just “preparations” rather than attendance, doncha understand.
Yeah, right.
02.01.09
Impartial watchdog, my foot
The IAEA’s El Baradei comes out for Hamas. Now, is a guy like that really able to be objective about Iranian nukes?
Especially when you consider the coziness between the two.
05.19.08
Sick and wrong on too many levels to count
A special UN rapporteur is coming to the UN to investigate what role racism might play in the US presidential campaign. Bear in mind that this Senegalese guy is a bigwig in the Islamic world with a record of anti-Semitism. And then there’s the clown from our own government who says that our going along with this shows we’re “leading by example.”
That’s the second time I’ve heard the phrase “leading by example” today, the other being Barack Obama’s assertion to an Oregon crowd that we’re going to have to walk around chilly and hungry. (Well, maybe go around on bicycles.) (See post below.) “Lead by example” is starting to sound to me like it means “invite the world’s scumbags to trample on our freedom.”
03.13.08
A worthless den of Freedom-Haters
Ban Ki-Moon shows he’s perfectly qualified to lead the United Nations:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080313/wl_mideast_afp/oicislamsummitmideast
Any time somebody starts telling Israel to keep its “response proportional,” you know you’re dealing with a representative of the problem, not the solution.
09.09.07
A perfect example of why the term “international community” doesn’t mean diddly to me
The UN Human Rights go-to lady heads to Teheran for a meeting of the Non-Aligned Nations (a group chaired by Cuba) and listens attentively as Ahmadinejad delivers yet another harangue about how Israel and the West must be terminated. Oh, and the mullahs’ regime hangs a bunch of people the next day.
There’s a frequent commenter here at BN who often harps on the matter of the US losing respect in the world over the course of this decade. It’s incidents like this that make a question glaringly pertinent: Just whose respect within the “international community” is it so important for us to garner?
When you are the final beacon of righteousness and clear thinking on the planet , which the United States is (at least through January 2009; things could get much dimmer after that if a critical mass of Americans doesn’t wake up real fast), it’s not a very high priority to make sure the clueless and the corrupt think you’re cool. We have more important matters to deal with. There’s not a lot of time for UNs and EUs and other such worthless bodies.
07.13.07
Murk and slop
Claudia Rossett has the scoop on the latest way the UN has found to squander your hard-earned dollars – The Global Compact Initiative. Doesn’t just the name conjure images of bureaucratic sludge and five-course lunches? Not to mention sanctimony and socialism.
