The UN a Circus Atmosphere

The recent events in the Middle East have exposed one important fact of reality about the UN, that it is an organization of people full of hot air and little else. Kofi Annan and the other members of the UN have incessantly over the last two weeks since the Israeli conflict has been going on to call for an immediate cease fire. Yet, in the calling for this ceasefire will anything truly be resolved with the conflice that has been tearing its way through the Middle East these last 40 years? What is the UN plans to enforce its resolution and to ensure that the violence in the Middle East will finally come to an end?

The secret answer to these questions is absolutely nothing, just like how the UN and its members did nothing to enforce the many resolutions against Iraq. It could of course force monetary sanctions against those who are causing the violence. Yet, how does one force economic sanctions on terrorists? Of course, the UN could force sanctions against the states that are sponsoring the terrorist groups, mainly Iran and Syria. Yet, this worked wonders in Iraq, well it did for the many members of the UN who ended up lining their pockets with money from the coffers of Iraq in the ever so successful Oil for Food program. The one important aspect that the Oil for Food program showed is that any type of economic sanctions leveled against a dictator will only result in harming the people of the country and not the ruler of the country.

It is similar to telling an unruly child that he is being punished by sending the child to his room, while in that room there is a computer, Cable TV, DVD Player, and several video game systems. Thus, it is, with the continuing calling for sanctions by the UN against the unruly nations of the world. The leaders of these nations ignore and don’t care about these sanctions as they can just move resources and money from other programs and then continue focusing on the programs that caused the sanctions to be leveled in the first place. Also, with the lack of past enforcement of previous resolutions, what does the disruptive nation really have to worry about from the UN if it goes against its sanctions, more sanctions? Just like the unruly child who will continue misbehaving until real punishment is administered, a crack on the behind, so too the nations who continue to sponsor terrorist and wish for the destruction of Israel won’t stop until they are proverbially punched in the mouth and out for the count.

Of course the UN has never once achieved a knock out count in its 60 year history. The UN is just like the body that preceded, the League of Nations with its failure to prevent World War 2 by not having any power and its willingness to have “peace” at any means, even appeasing thugs and psychotic leaders. The UN has reached the likeness of the League in every shape and form, calling for cease fires with people who don’t care about the lives of their own people. While in its anxiousness to have peace and stop the violence, it allows those who initiate the violence to remain unpunished and to continue to have their toys. Yet, unlike the unruly child being sent to his room, the toys that are being kept are AK-47s, grenades, bombs and rockets that rain down on the very people they are supposed to be having a ceasefire. A ceasefire with people who have sworn a vow and is totally commited to sole purpose of seeing the total anhilation of the Israeli nation. Yet, the UN still thinks and believes that a ceasefire and negotiations with people of this thinking will actually have any type of real result?

The UN and its members should come to terms with the fact that their words and the hot air that drives them can and should be put to better use, blowing up balloons at children birthday parties. Figuring the big joke of the UN, and the clowns who are its members, actually believe that what they say matters and that it can enforce anything. Honestly, does anybody feel threatened by a clown in big red shoes and a white painted face of surrender and a flower of peace in its coat pocket?