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Since the vote was taken by United Nations members to oust the United States
from the Human Rights Commission, numerous articles have been written
condemning the action, but perhaps no article was more important than the one
written by A. M. Rosenthal entitled "Agonies of dreams forsaken." Mr.
Rosenthal's article is notable because he is a former editor of The New York
Times who once covered the UN, but more importantly, because he has been a
lifelong supporter and believer in the UN.
Rosenthal wrote his column just after the UN Human Rights Commission vote.
His agony is apparent in the first paragraph. He said his column was "among
the most difficult I have written in a life-time of journalism." A.M.
Rosenthal is a lifelong liberal. The UN and its dream of "world brotherhood"
were the culmination of the hopes and dreams of the entire liberal movement.
The reality that such a utopia cannot exist has now become so obvious that
even they can no longer ignore the UN's pre-ordained fate.
The liberals thought they could force the world to be good. They thought they
could dictate the standards by which we would all we have to live. In doing
so, they tried to ignore two emerging and essential facts of the last and
this new century; individual freedom and national cultural differences.
Instead of making us all the same to live in harmony, they succeeded in
creating greater misunderstanding and hatreds. People resist-as they
should---being stripped of their national identity and history. The result is
fear and mistrust.
A world devoid of national identity is a world devoid of national leadership.
The void that is created is filled by those ambitious enough to fill it.
Today's leaders aren't the visionaries of the West who truly hoped for a
world of peace. Instead, they are the ruthless dictators of Communist China,
Iran, Iraq, and others who seek regional or world domination. The UN has
proven to be the perfect vehicle as compliant client-nations give voice to
their ravings and deem them legitimate.
The United Nations was a dream, but as its Human Rights Commission comes
under control of the world's worst offenders of human rights, and as its
Narcotics Control Board is manned by the likes of Iran, one of the worst
drug-pushing nations on earth, the UN has become the full blown nightmare for
freedom-loving individuals and sovereign nations. The UN has become the
theater of the absurd that even its most devoted supporters can no longer
ignore.
There is one solution to bringing peace and sanity back to a world community
of responsible and accountable sovereign nations. The United States must
leave this cesspool of corruption. When that occurs, it will be the final
chapter of an idea gone terrible wrong and the effort to impose a world
government that would suppress liberty and plunge us into a new Dark Age of
serfdom and ignorance.
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report, a monthly
newsletter on global and national issues. He is also president of the
American Policy Center and Foundation, a grassroots, activist think tank
headquartered in Herndon, VA. The Center maintains an Internet site at
www.americanpolicy.org.
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