Sunday Smiles

David Strom 2:30 PM | March 16, 2025
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The United Nations is relatively popular in the United States. About half the country views it favorably, which is a great example of how ill-informed people are and how effective propaganda can be. 

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In reality, the UN is a cesspool of corruption, run by kleptocrats, with a General Assembly dominated by autocratic, anti-Western countries violently opposed to US interests, filled with antisemites, and with a "peacekeeping" arm that is simultaneously useless for keeping peace but rather effective at doing harm. 

You probably don't know, for instance, that UN "Peacekeepers" have been stationed in southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from attacking Israel and maintain a ceasefire. In some form or another the operation has been in effect since 1978.  

It's called UNIFIL, or United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon, The last I checked, "peace" has not exactly broken out in the region since 1978, despite 46 years of "peacekeepers" maintaining the peace. 

Uselessness is one thing, and bad enough, but UN "peacekeeping" missions are often actively harmful. Scandals having to do with spreading preventable diseases are common, and sex trafficking scandals abound. Rape, pedophilia, and...slavery. Brought to you by the United Nations. 

There have certainly been more malign organizations in the world--the Nazis, the various communist governments, Islamist regimes and terrorist organizations, but the United Nations has been responsible for more than its share of misery. 

The UN Human Rights Council will issue tens of reports condemning Israel a year, and almost no other reports condemning other countries. Iran and Libya have chaired the council. Last year the UNHRC condemned Israel 17 times. Every other country in the world combined accounted for 6 condemnations. 

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That's right. Israel is three times worse than the rest of the world combined, according to the "human rights" council. Massacres, genocides, stripping the rights of women and people with non-standard sexual preferences don't warrant notice at all, because...United Nations. Israel bad, Islamists super duper good. 

It shouldn't shock you that a United Nations judge is a slaver. It shouldn't shock you that when caught she shrugged and claimed diplomatic immunity. "Do you know who I am?!" It is just another day at the United Nations to discover that a member of the elite takes advantage of a member of the hoi polloi. 

Americans are idealists, and we can be idealists because God has blessed us with extraordinary fortune relative to people outside our country. We are separated from hostile powers by two oceans, have a history that begins coincident with the Scottish Enlightenment, and we began our trek as a nation among the wealthiest countries in the world (In 1776 the average American was substantially wealthier than even the average Brit).

Most Americans think that everybody getting along is a natural state of affairs. Come, let us reason together. 

Yeah, well, no. That's not how things work in the rest of the world, and if we keep importing the rest of the world's problems it won't work here either. 

The UN is based on a false premise: that peace is the natural state and war is caused by avoidable frictions. It would be nice if that were so, but history says otherwise. There will always be aggressive tyrants, hatreds bred in ethnic, religious, or historical differences, and desire for revenge that motivates murderousness. The best we can do is play whack a mole and try to distract people from these hatreds. 

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If the Irish, the Welsh, the Scots, and the English can't love each other and get along despite relative peace and prosperity, what is the prospect for peace in Africa where resentments run deep and historical wrongs are even fresher? Massacres are going on RIGHT NOW in Africa about which almost nobody knows, and the UN is powerless or worse to stop them. 

I am inclined to think that the United Nations should be disbanded, but I am persuadable on the matter. The things we see are almost all negative, but perhaps some diplomats can share with me reasons that it can remain useful, such as providing an easy way to secretly negotiate with diplomats from hostile countries that would be impossible otherwise. 

Nothing we can see says the UN is anything other than a trash organization and a total sham. Unless there is some hidden benefit, it should be disbanded, torn down, and the building replaced with expensive condos. 


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