The Obama administration has staked its Syria policy on winning consensus at the United Nations Security Council, a near impossibility given Russia’s desire to protect Bashar al-Assad at all costs. Alas, it is not only the Kremlin whose resistance empowers Assad’s murderous regime.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reportedly appointed Amat Al Alim Alsoswa, a former Yemeni minister for human rights, to be his task force leader on Syria. The problem is that Amat was a representative and functionary for the brutal regime of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
When the UN chooses a Qaddafi regime functionary to oversee human rights, an Islamic Republic of Iran official to handle proliferation concerns, and a representative of an Arab dictator to chair a task force handling the Assad’s “brotherly regime,” then it loses all credibility. The Syrian people deserve better.
Whenever did the UN have any positive credibility? NEVER. Not even when Palestine was partitioned in 1948. Such a 'partition' should have been followed up with full strength measures to ensure the result. The UN is far worse than a total failure. It offers a false dangerous illusion.
abolish the UN or reduce its capacity to do harm to a minimum. Why should Israel or any civilized country be governed by the wishes of the Islamic OIC? Yet the OIC has strong grip on the UN due to its forming a compact minority that other states wish to please for logrolling reasons. n nAbolish it or weaken it considerably. The UN is a criminal body.
UN's rarely been more than a pontification society.