PrintSeptember 17, 2005
Damned if you do...
The international left has a new complaint: that the United States is immorally cooperating with Australia, Japan, and India to coordinate tsunami relief efforts, thereby "undermining" the United Nations.
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'I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up,' she said.
'Only really the UN can do that job,' she told BBC Radio Four's PM programme. 'It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.' Ms Short said the coalition countries did not have good records on responding to international disasters. She said the US was 'very bad at coordinating with anyone' and India had its own problems to deal with. 'I don't know what that is about but it sounds very much, I am afraid, like the US trying to have a separate operation and not work with the rest of the world through the UN system,' she added. Considering the miserable track record of the UN in botching the Oil for Food Program, not to mention the genocide in Rwanda, the child sex scandals of UN peacekeepers in the Congo and the Balkans, Ms. Short must be living on another planet.
Hat tip: Alex
Thomas Lifson 12 31 04 |
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