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A state of belligerency has existed ever since then.
The US Constitution begins "We the people of the United States, in order to
form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America." Our homeland was
attacked on September 11, 2001. The need to provide for the common defense
has become our priority. Failing to achieve that, we put our nation, our
freedom, and our lives, at risk.
As for UN resolutions, they are a joke and a very bad one when it comes to
the sovereignty of our nation and all others. Most certainly, we have seen
Iraq ignore sixteen resolutions with impunity. Throughout the ugly history of
the UN, the might and muscle of the US has been the single factor to maintain
peace in the world. Even a casual look at its corruption, rampant racism, and
indifference to human rights should have rendered the United Nations the
laughingstock of the world long ago.
Its member nations have routinely ignored the United Nations while paying lip
service to its alleged authority. It has not managed to stop a single war
since its founding in 1947. The US had to do the fighting in Korea and has
participated in so-called "peace keeping" every since. Without asking
"permission" we swatted Grenada, bombed but missed Khadaffi, and jailed
Panama's Noriega when they got out of hand. And the world is better off for
it.
The interesting thing is that George W. Bush seems to understand this better
than anyone. In September he stood at the rostrum of the UN's General
Assembly and told the diplomats the UN was perilously close to being
"irrelevant" and impotent. Let us hark back to the halcyon days of the League
of Nations (which the US Senate wisely refused to join) and recall how it
totally failed to ward off World War One. As some point, Americans may begin
to understand that the United Nations is an instrument of global domination
and enslavement.
I am no historian, but I know enough to draw a few conclusions. One, it is
the nature of men to aggregate themselves into nations. Two, democracy is
still a fairly new concept for most nations, which explains why so many
people are still forced to accept life under a dictator or an authoritarian
regime. Three, it is the nature of the occasional psychopathic dictator,
when not butchering his own people, to rally them to go to war with a
neighboring state. Saddam is the perfect example of this and he has been
tolerated too long.
We, the United States, are the only nation with the power and the guts to go
kill Saddam. I put it to you that we do not need any permission from the
United Nations, nor from any other nation, though it would be prudent to
secure their support. When we went into Afghanistan and rid it of the Taliban
and began chasing the al Qaeda up one hill and down another, nations in that
area of the world were happy to have us remove this menace.
Congress hasn't voted on a Declaration of War since the beginning of World
War Two in 1941. Of its 435 members, 58 belong to the Democratic Socialists
of America, dedicated to communism. Two of them, Rep. David Bonier (D-MI) and
Rep. James A. McDermott (D-WA) were in Iraq recently. The latter accused the
President of deceiving Americans and urged that we accept the truthfulness of
Saddam Hussein.
With the exception of the support of Great Britain, a nation that remembers
what it was like to build and be a great empire, I don't give a damn about
what the United Nations and others who will not do the actual fighting have
to say on the matter of our dispensing some long overdue justice to crazy
Saddam.
I hope we stay in the area a long time (we have been in Europe since the end
of WWII and in Korea since the truce there in the late 50s). I hope we take
control of their oil to help create a viable economy in Iraq. I hope we help
with the overthrow of Syria's dictator and Iran's ayatollahs. I hope we get
to watch the House of Saud implode and make it clear to the Kuwaitis and
other little sheikdoms that we are going to help them write nice, new
constitutions that grant real freedom to their subjects, er, citizens.
The kind of power the United States possesses is meaningless if not
implemented to insure a better future both at home and abroad. Toot! Toot!
The Freedom Train is leaving the station. Get on board or get run over.
Alan Caruba is the author of "The United Nations Vs. The United States", for sale from the Internet site of The National Anxiety
Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2002
Published by permission.
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