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Fri Mar 29 0:44:23 2024 / +0000 GMTUniversal Post Manager 1.1.2 [ www.ProfProjects.com ] National Affairs by Claire Hoy — Security Council membership no prize
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The Security Council system is such that it has allowed both China and Russia to veto dozens of resolutions aimed at ending the ongoing slaughter of civilians in Syria (all the while sitting by hopelessly as Russia sent its fighters in to support the deadly Assad regime there.)
Then, of course, there's the UN Human Rights Council, or HRC, which has elected such paragons of human rights practice as China, Cuba, Russia, Saudi Arabia and others, a blatant demonstration of the fact that, as they love to say in Texas, the organization is “all hat and no cattle.”
There remains in this country a significant block of elite Liberals who cling to the roundly discredited notion that the UN is still the organization it was briefly back in the early years when a Canadian bureaucrat — and later prime minister — Lester Pearson came up with the idea of a blue-helmeted UN peacekeeping force to intervene between warring parties.
While that system did have laudable results for a while, the time has long past since it's a feasible idea — imagine standing between ISIS and its enemies and expecting ISIS to respect the UN infidels.
Yet even though the idea is no longer workable — with the exception of a few minor skirmishes here and there — Liberals and their media acolytes continue to champion this discredited model.
So Trudeau — by sending money and sucking up to every tyrant with a handout — no doubt will garner a seat for Canada on the security council.
It will be hailed as a great breakthrough, a return to the international stage, and we can all get together for a coast-to-coast group hug and take comfort in pretending that it matters.
There now, don't you just feel warm and fuzzy all over?]]>171002016-03-25 12:10:262016-03-25 16:10:26