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Saturday, February 15, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:32 AM:
Den Beste reminds us of the sh-- peddled by the noble UN:The ultimate tragedy was the Srebrenica "safe zone", a place of refuge for Muslims supposedly guaranteed by the UN. But when hostile troops showed up, in the end, and made clear by their actions that they didn't believe that the UN troops there would really be willing to defend it, they were proved right. The Dutch troops on the spot stood back and did nothing while the Serbs proceeded to slaughter thousands of Muslim males that the Dutch and the UN had promised to defend. Had the troops been from almost any other European nation, the result would have been the same. They were there not because they were ready to fight if need be, but because they desperately hoped that they would not be asked to. When they finally faced that eventuality, they backed down, and 7500 Muslim men and boys paid the ultimate price for that failure.Let's repeat that:
Thousands of Muslims died for the UN's lack of will in Yugoslavia.
It appears now that the UN is heaving a sigh of relief that it may get a chance to heave its principles, its committments and the value of its words overboard again.
One wonders. One ugly scenario: Saddam gets a weapon of mass destruction and uses it against Israel in an effort to rally for a new Arab empire. Is the UN prepared to sacrifice thousands, even millions, of the Jewish people so it can pretend to world leadership without doing anything?
Duh.
It's par for the course for the current head of the Security Council.
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