July 21, 2006

The Beauty of the U.N. is Precisely That It is So Good at Accomplishing Nothing

From Victor Davis Hanson:

What should the United States do? If it really cares about human life and future peace, then we should talk ad nauseam about "restraint" and "proportionality" while privately assuring Israel the leeway to smash both Hamas and Hezbollah - and humiliate Syria and Iran, who may well come off very poorly from their longed-for but bizarre war.

Only then will Israel restore some semblance of deterrence and strengthen nascent democratic movements in both Lebanon and even the West Bank. This is the truth that everyone from London to Cairo knows, but dares not speak.

...In this regard, it is time to stop the silly slurs that American policy in the Middle East is either in shambles or culpable for the present war. In fact, if we keep our cool, the Bush doctrine is working. Both Afghans and Iraqis each day fight and kill Islamist terrorists; neither was doing so before 9/11. Syria and Iran have never been more isolated; neither was isolated when Bill Clinton praised the "democracy" in Tehran or when an American secretary of State sat on the tarmac in Damascus for hours to pay homage to Syria's gangsters. Israel is at last being given an opportunity to unload on jihadists; that was impossible during the Arafat fraud that grew out of the Oslo debacle. Europe is waking up to the dangers of radical Islamism; in the past, it bragged of its aid and arms sales to terrorist governments from the West Bank to Baghdad.

The U.N. is the perfect forum for such meaningless talking. Let everyone in the U.N. say anything they want. It just gives cover to everyone in the world for not supporting the Hezbollah terrorists. Nations can go to the U.N. and complain about Israel, or pretend to complain, all they want, and look like they're trying to do something. Meanwhile Israel goes on blowing the hell out of Hezbollah.

So after 9/11, the London bombings, the Madrid murders, the French riots, the Beslan atrocities, the killings in India, the Danish cartoon debacle, Theo Van Gogh, and the daily arrests of Islamic terrorists trying to blow up, behead, or shoot innocent people around the globe, the world is sick of the jihadist ilk. And for all the efforts of the BBC, Reuters, Western academics, and the horde of appeasers and apologists that usually bail these terrorist killers out when their rhetoric finally outruns their muscle, this time they can't.

Instead, a disgusted world secretly wants these terrorists to get what they deserve. And who knows: This time they just might.

The world is getting sick of the terrorists' phony excuses and their use of human shields.  The rules of the game are changing.

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Categories: Counter-Terrorism, The Mid East, The U.N.

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