The World According To UNGA
By Oliver North
September 21, 2007
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In the World According to UNGA, Zimbabwe -- led by President for Life Robert Mugabe -- is put in charge of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development, even though Mugabe's idea of sustainable development is seizing the property of white families and turning productive farms into wastelands while his people starve.
In the World According to UNGA, blue-helmeted peacekeepers rape women and children with impunity; humanitarian relief programs become the piggybanks for diplomats, politicians and thugs, and dictators and terrorists are given a global platform for America bashing. But then, this is, after all, the place where, in 1960, Nikita Khrushchev of the USSR interrupted the proceedings by banging on the podium with his fists and a shoe. It's the kind of place that Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO, could feel comfortable demanding the demise of Israel while wearing a sidearm. And it's the place where despots such as Idi Amin are welcome to lecture the world on the evils of colonialism -- while his minions are committing mass murder.
Next week, President Bush will make a cameo appearance in the World According to UNGA. According to the White House, he will once again call for the world body to unite in helping stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. He'll ask the assembled potentates to come to the aid of the struggling democracy in Iraq and to fulfill their promises to the people of Afghanistan. He'll again challenge the U.N. to make good on ethical reforms and financial transparency. And, as before, his appeals will fall on deaf ears.
And then, just hours later, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will stand at the same platform to deny the obvious -- that his government is a state sponsor of radical Islamic terror and that his scientists are in the process of building nuclear weapons. Though the United States contributes nearly 20 times more than Iran to the operations of the U.N., Ahmadinejad will be treated as America's equal. Those of us who think such treatment is unfair will just have to lump it. That's just the way it is in the World According to UNGA.
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Oliver North is the host of "War Stories" on FOX News Channel. To find out more about Oliver North and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.
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