Is there any particular reason that the United States is still involved with the United Nations? If there’s an international body more anti-liberty and anti-American than the United Nations, one would have to spend some time ciphering out who that might be. Not only does the United Nations (UN) demand that the United States pick up the tab for so many international efforts, but they also appoint some of the most odious national dictatorships to high-profile policy panels.
Here’s a good one.
Western democracies, including the UK, France, Canada and Australia, are facing backlash after allowing Iran and other authoritarian regimes to secure seats on influential United Nations (U.N.) bodies, with the United States standing alone in opposition.
The controversy stems from decisions by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), a 54-member body that plays a central role in shaping U.N. policy and staffing key committees.
Critics warn the outcome could allow governments accused of human rights abuses to influence global policy and control which civil society groups are granted access to the United Nations.
But wait! There’s more!
ECOSOC nominated the Islamic Republic of Iran to the U.N.’s Committee for Program and Coordination Wednesday, a body that helps shape policy on human rights, women’s rights, disarmament and counterterrorism.
The nomination is widely expected to be finalized, as the United Nations General Assembly typically approves such recommendations without a vote.
At the same session, ECOSOC elected China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia and Sudan to the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, which oversees accreditation and access for thousands of NGOs operating within the U.N. system.
The United States was the only member state to formally break from consensus.
As the old saying goes, isn’t that special.
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The UN has historically been good at a very few things, but not so much anymore. For a while, they did reasonably good work at things like monitoring elections in Third World feces-holes and delivering food and medical aid to those same places. But in recent years, we’ve seen too many episodes of graft and corruption, in too many places. Now the UN wants Iranian’s savage, 7th-century barbarians to have some say in a committee that “helps shape policy on human rights, women’s rights, disarmament and counterterrorism”? For the luvva Pete, why? That’s the very definition of leaving the fox to guard the henhouse.
At least one US watchdog group called them out:
The decision drew sharp criticism from UN Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog group.
Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital: “By their cynical actions at the UN, major Western states have betrayed their own human rights principles, severely undermining the rules-based international order that they claim to support.”
“We note that the EU states clearly had another option. They did take action in recent years to stop Russia from getting elected to similar bodies, and so we deeply regret that they failed to do the same now to stop the election of serial violators such as Iran, China, China, (sic) Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.”
It’s time the United States left the United Nations. Let the rest of the UN, impoverished as they will be without American money, bog off to The Hague, or Paris, or Abuja. Who cares. It’s been some time now since we had anything to gain by remaining in the UN, and we have a lot to gain by leaving it.
Mr. President – it’s time. Pulls us out. Let them fend for themselves, just not here, and just not with our money.
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