The UN is not only a feckless organization but it is also dangerous.
The question is why, given what we know about how currupt this organization is, do people like John Kerry, George Sorros, and Peter Beinart continue to advocate that we work even more closely with the UN to promote global peace and stability? You should also ask yourself why the liberals oppose a man lke John Bolton who has been one of the few Ambasadors to the UN that has actually demanded transparency and accountability to US taxpayers. Why are American liberals so quick to condemn Bolton and so quick to reccomend working more closely with Kofi Annan who was himself in bed with Saddam Hussein (oil for food)? What does that tell you about the American Left in this country?
Lori Lowenthal Marcus has this piece in The Weekly Standard that is a must read if you really want to see how UNIFIL- the UN “peacekeeping” force in Lebanon “openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.”
UNIFIL–the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978–is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.
Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. Statements on the order of Hezbollah “fired rockets in large numbers from various locations” and Hezbollah’s rockets “were fired in significantly larger numbers from various locations” are as precise as its coverage of the other side ever got.
I wonder if “60 Minutes,” Katie Couric, or any other “mainstream” media organizaion will do some really hard hitting investigative journalism to expose this story?
HT Janet Levy from JihadWatch