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Thursday, September 09, 2010
The Next War?
Some threats blend villainy and absurdity so perfectly that the reader laughs as he primes his musket:
After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants — the top brass of the entire U.N. system — spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world’s agenda.Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:
- how to restore “climate change” as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year’s Copenhagen summit;
- how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of “global public goods”;
- how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;
- how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new “international migration governance framework”;
- how to make “clever” use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls “civil society,” meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which — according to the position papers, anyway — continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of “global governance.”
Emphasis added by your Curmudgeon. The position papers of which columnist George Russell speaks may be downloaded via this link. Sadly, they're image based, and so difficult to search, but they're not long, and well worth reading.
The United Nations, in FDR's original design, was supposed to be a continuous mutual diplomatic mission among its member nation-states, a means by which they could avert wars and settle nagging conflicts among them. At least, that was the overt rationale. It's quite possible that Roosevelt also saw the UN as a way to enhance American international prestige and influence, as some commentators and analysts have suggested. By either measure, it's been a colossal failure. But original intentions no longer matter to those who control it. Its masters seek greater power and stature than any American would want them to have. In particular, they hope to make the UN a global legislature, and to subordinate national governments, including ours, to UN decisions.
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln would not approve. Your Curmudgeon certainly doesn't. But how serious a threat is it?
The UN is unable to impose its dictates on the United States by force, and will remain so for as far into the future as your Curmudgeon can peer. A single division of United States Marines would massacre all the UN "peacekeepers" ever deployed, even if our men were armed only with toothpicks. Only if America were to surrender its sovereignty in favor of UN dominance would we lose our sovereignty -- and that, to be gentle about it, isn't very likely. But your Curmudgeon is aware that there are special interests in America that would like it very much, and some of them would not be averse to working hand in glove with the UN, against American interests.
Such interests must be watched closely. Beyond that, in these final months of Democrat hegemony over Washington, it is vital that the words of our Pretender-In-Chief and any coordinated developments on Capitol Hill be carefully monitored. The Obamunists have more power than any American government has ever enjoyed, but they want still more. It is not unthinkable that they see an "enhanced relationship" with the UN as a means to that end.
Mark Steyn once wrote, most perceptively, that Obama sees himself as larger than the presidency:
Many Americans are beginning to pick up the strange vibe that, for Barack Obama, governing America is "an interesting sociological experiment," too. He would doubtless agree that the United States is 'the place on earth that, if I needed one, I would call home.' But he doesn't, not really: It is hard to imagine Obama wandering along to watch a Memorial Day or Fourth of July parade until the job required him to. That's not to say he's un-American or anti-American, but merely that he's beyond all that. Way beyond. He's the first president to give off the pronounced whiff that he's condescending to the job -- that it's really too small for him and he's just killing time until something more commensurate with his stature comes along.
Such a man might well be attracted to the notion of a single world government -- with himself at the helm.
Keep your powder dry.
Comments
Those that need to be watched very closely need to be properly placed for observation. The best place is suspended on a rope from a light pole along Pennsylvania Avenue. Fortunately, there are many light poles, so we can watch quite a crowd as they twist in the wind.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/09/2010 at 10:03 AMI agree that they wouldn’t make it past the Marines, but on the off-chance they did, they have bigger worries, such as the reason the Japanese did not try to invade the mainland US in WW II.
Posted by Matt on 09/09/2010 at 10:48 AMblue helmets should make really good targets. Praise the Lord and stockpile your ammo.
VETTOM III
we are everywherePosted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/09/2010 at 10:51 AMThe tide of migration is relentlessly East-and-Third-World to West for reasons about which EVERYONE directly involved is in deep denial; and the hypocrisy of denigrating the West, in the most appalling language and actions, while migrating to it in vast numbers, is so profound as to be pathological.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/09/2010 at 06:18 PM“Such a man might well be attracted to the notion of a single world government—with himself at the helm. “
Yup, not to toot my own horn, but that’s what I thought since he took his first bumbling steps into the Whitehouse.
Posted by Russell on 09/10/2010 at 12:36 PM
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