english.ohmynews.com— Children raped. Girls forced to trade sex for food. Women assaulted at gunpoint. Is this the behavior one would expect from the United Nations peacekeeping missions?
Dec 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
sorry but those abuses in Iraq do not even compare to the wide spread rape that the UN has let happen.Not even close.Both are wrong, but the UN has shown a consistent pattern of this for a very long time and have harmed many many more people than Abu Ghraib.But not trolling.
China has exactly the same privileges as we do. The five permanent security council members with veto powers are: China, the US, Britain, France and Russia.As far as human rights violations. GITMO and Iraq have put us in a bad light recently as well.
I just checked on the U.N.'s Web site. We're on the Disarmament Commission, the Security Council, the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission, The Committee Against Torture, etc. We were on every Commission or Committee that I could find a membership roster for before I got bored and quit. I didn't count China's membership at the same time, so I can't give you a comparison, but you seem to have a misconception about our level of participation.
The fact that we were not voted to a Human Rights Committee post in 2006 is not shocking as reports of our activities in Ab Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and the secret network of CIA prisons comes to light. The number of predominately Arab and Islamic states in the world has also grown, and they view our policy of unconditional support for Israel to also be problematic from a civil rights point of view, and lastly we started a war that may end up destabilizing the entire Middle East with little justification.Add to that the absolute disdain that the current administration has shown the U.N. (appointing Bolton was pretty much the diplomatic equivalent to giving them the finger), and the fact that we are $1.5 billion in arrears on our dues, and you can see how we might not be viewed as the popular kids on the block right now. The U.N. is not a branch of the U.S. government. Our lack of diplomatic influence on the world stage is a direct result of our ham-fisted foreign policies.
@ sirlointhe difference between the u.s. and the u.n. is that when crimes are committed, people are held to account. if a u.s. soldier is somewhere representing the u.s. and they rape a woman, f**k yeah i want them convicted. the issue here isn't blame america first. the issue is that soldiers under the u.n. flag are going in as peacekeepers to help people and instead are banging minors--and f**kers like you seek reasons to blame america first instead of dealing with the issue at hand.
A lot of the jobs with the UN are "intern" or unpaid (volunteer) jobs. The employees have to pay their own transportation to the host country. The "dollar-a-year" man was an old word for an unpaid volunteer for the UN. Who knows what kind of unpaid volunteers are applying for jobs today. Maybe the standards for volunteers aren't as high as that for the paid workers. Others may be members of the Communist Party who turn in their salary, if they get one, to one of the all-consuming Soviet banks. The UN should reserve the right to check that the employees that they hire will not just turn in the money to the Soviets, by a history of financial responsibility. The ones that do slavery and commit all sorts of crimes are probably not the paid ones.The officials in the host country should "card" them, and see if the so-called "UN peacekeepers", or UN impersonators, have passports with visas or entry stamps......
I can't stress enough that volunteer workers need to have background and criminal record checks done.
Even if a small percentage of sex-offenders are stopped from being placed in a situation where they have an advatange over needy women - it is well worth it.
Closed AccountDec 27, 2006
sorry but those abuses in Iraq do not even compare to the wide spread rape that the UN has let happen.Not even close.Both are wrong, but the UN has shown a consistent pattern of this for a very long time and have harmed many many more people than Abu Ghraib.But not trolling.
hipnerdDec 27, 2006
China has exactly the same privileges as we do. The five permanent security council members with veto powers are: China, the US, Britain, France and Russia.As far as human rights violations. GITMO and Iraq have put us in a bad light recently as well.
hipnerdDec 27, 2006
I just checked on the U.N.'s Web site. We're on the Disarmament Commission, the Security Council, the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission, The Committee Against Torture, etc. We were on every Commission or Committee that I could find a membership roster for before I got bored and quit. I didn't count China's membership at the same time, so I can't give you a comparison, but you seem to have a misconception about our level of participation.
volatilewhimsyDec 27, 2006
From what I was aware we are on the councils we are permanent members, anything that takes a vote has been pretty won by other countries.
hipnerdDec 27, 2006
The fact that we were not voted to a Human Rights Committee post in 2006 is not shocking as reports of our activities in Ab Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and the secret network of CIA prisons comes to light. The number of predominately Arab and Islamic states in the world has also grown, and they view our policy of unconditional support for Israel to also be problematic from a civil rights point of view, and lastly we started a war that may end up destabilizing the entire Middle East with little justification.Add to that the absolute disdain that the current administration has shown the U.N. (appointing Bolton was pretty much the diplomatic equivalent to giving them the finger), and the fact that we are $1.5 billion in arrears on our dues, and you can see how we might not be viewed as the popular kids on the block right now. The U.N. is not a branch of the U.S. government. Our lack of diplomatic influence on the world stage is a direct result of our ham-fisted foreign policies.
dcmacheadDec 27, 2006
@ sirlointhe difference between the u.s. and the u.n. is that when crimes are committed, people are held to account. if a u.s. soldier is somewhere representing the u.s. and they rape a woman, f**k yeah i want them convicted. the issue here isn't blame america first. the issue is that soldiers under the u.n. flag are going in as peacekeepers to help people and instead are banging minors--and f**kers like you seek reasons to blame america first instead of dealing with the issue at hand.
chatty82Dec 31, 2006
A lot of the jobs with the UN are "intern" or unpaid (volunteer) jobs. The employees have to pay their own transportation to the host country. The "dollar-a-year" man was an old word for an unpaid volunteer for the UN. Who knows what kind of unpaid volunteers are applying for jobs today. Maybe the standards for volunteers aren't as high as that for the paid workers. Others may be members of the Communist Party who turn in their salary, if they get one, to one of the all-consuming Soviet banks. The UN should reserve the right to check that the employees that they hire will not just turn in the money to the Soviets, by a history of financial responsibility. The ones that do slavery and commit all sorts of crimes are probably not the paid ones.The officials in the host country should "card" them, and see if the so-called "UN peacekeepers", or UN impersonators, have passports with visas or entry stamps......
Closed AccountNov 15, 2010
I can't stress enough that volunteer workers need to have background and criminal record checks done.
Even if a small percentage of sex-offenders are stopped from being placed in a situation where they have an advatange over needy women - it is well worth it.
Trust, but verify