If we needed any proof that the UN sides with dictator-thugs, this is it. Denis Barnett, of South Africa's Mail & Guardian, writes that the UN invited Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to speak at the 60th anniversary of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
"I find it amazing they've invited Mr Mugabe to speak at the 60th anniversary, who in a way has done so much to hurt the hungry, and who has absolutely turned his back on the poor," said Tony Hall, US ambassador to the UN food agencies in Rome.
"I find it amazing. What can he possibly say to us at the conference, when he has done so much to hurt his own people? Food has been used as a weapon against his own people," Hall said late on Friday.
"The country used to be a net exporter of food and now a good portion of the people have to be fed," said Hall, who was on a tour of World Food Programme aid stations in the stricken Southern African country.
Where is the UN's outrage over Mugabe's destructive policies? If not outrage, where is their concern? Inviting Mugabe to speak to the FAO is like inviting Saddam Hussein to speak before an organization dedicated to ending the use of chemical weapons.
I've posted before about Zimbabwe and their deteriorating economy and society as a result of Mugabe's various policies. This post has links to the other posts.
I know our leaders, including President Bush favor reforming the UN over abandoning it, but where will they draw the line? When the UN works hard at slamming democracies and then rewards oppressive, murderous regimes, what choice do they leave us?
How long will we wait before we finally pull our funding from the UN and send the whole lot of them packing to some other shore?
1 comment:
Its definitely time to send them packing. But its sadly indicative of the West's lack of concern for the suffering people of this world that they continue supporting this corrupt organization.
Only the U.S. could muster the funds and influence to form a new and effective forum for world debate, aid, and change, but what countries would join us? Even many of our so-called allies (along with this country's Left) are content with the America-bashing and the corruption.
But the U.N. is little more than a political stage which rarely functions in our interests and the interests of those most in need.
Oh, and I'll be praying for your back.
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