There are a Helluvalot more good reasons to stop all US support for the UN than the Rwanda and Yugo massacres … as I believe you are already well aware.
I think it boils down to this.
A large fraction of the world’s governments are still trying to climb out of their ancient and primitive governing systems.
And, in fact, some are, if anything, backsliding into near medieval governing forms … like Mexico, Zimbabwe and Ecuador.
To expect their delegates to perform in an enlightened, just and humanitarian mode just because they are in New York and in a chair in the General Assembly Hall is naive, to say the least.
Just recall the League of Nations, the previous effort at a quasi- world body.
That fiasco died as a result of its total failure to react against
the terrible threat of rampant Fascism in Italy, Spain and Germany, and its amoral ignoring of Abyssinia’s Emperor Haile Sellasie’s emotional appeal, while Mussolini’s troops armed with Fascist machine guns were killing Abyssinians armed with bows and arrows .
One of two things will happen to the UN.
Either those utterly bereft of rationality, like Obama, Brown and others will succeed in actually morphing the UN into a nominal World
Government (and I truly believe that heading such a ‘government” is
Obama’s real ambition, intention and expectation) and the result, shortly thereafter will be world wide revolt against it, and/or the concatenation of utterly idiotic developments that result from the
UN’s actions will first and finally rid us of it as general disgust and disillusionment grow.
Right now I expect the first outcome, based upon what I believe are
Obama’s explicit intentions to bankrupt the USA and thus force us into accepting World Governance.
There are oh so many trends developing that are absolutely unsustainable.
If it were just a bad historical novel it would be exciting and entertaining.
But it is all about our nation, our lives, and those of our beloved offspring … and of all the rest of humanity, too.

Bill

PS: I’ve watched the trailer/got the message … and don’t think I’ll go see the movie! BH

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On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Pat Kelley wrote:

Everyone needs to see this movie, “Shake Hands With the Devil” (trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHAXnOGj9k ). It’s the story of the Rwanda massacre told from the view of the Canadian Lieutenant General who was in charge of the UN peacekeeping force, Gen Romeo Dallaire. Our current administration wants us to give the UN more power, but remembering Rwanda and the slaughter at Srebrenica (Bosnia, where Serbs excuted 6,000 Muslim men and boys after UN leadership ordered the Dutch force to stand down and let them be taken) I have to ask myself why.

I’ve heard people say that UN forces are not intended to force people to have peace (the same argument used for U.S. forces not getting involved in other countries’ affairs). If all they’re being used for is to be a witness to such savagery, then what’s the point? I can’t see a point to continuing to fund such a dysfunctional organization that stands by and allows the brutal killing of innocents.

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