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Jim Campbell <http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/jim-campbell> Obama is selling the US on the value of the UN the Brooklyn Bridge is next . February 12th, 2011 6:01 pm ET . . President Barack Hussein Obama is conning the American electorate into believing that the UN is a great deal for America. Factually its failures outnumber its success when it comes to preventing wars or providing peacekeeping missions. Before the reader thinks about buying what this administration is selling it's time to examine the mission and stated role of the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations <http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/about/dpko/> (DEPKO), which is to maintain international peace and security. Have they? You decide! Mr. Obama sent Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49319.html> , to argue in a major address yesterday evening that America should "strengthen," not "starve" the world body. Her address was the first in a series of speeches, to continue this spring, making the case to the American people for why the U.N. matters to national security, and detailing how it is being improved. The ambassador will be speaking to the World Affairs Council of Oregon in Portland. "The U.N. provides a real return on our tax dollars by bringing 192 countries together to share the cost of providing stability, vital aid and hope in the world's most broken places," Rice said in prepared remarks. (LOL Then it must be the only government program?) "Because of the U.N., the world doesn't look to America to solve every problem alone. We're far better off working to strengthen the U.N. than trying to starve it and then having to choose between filling the void ourselves, and leaving real threats untended." (Facts presented below do not substanciate the smoke being blown in Rice's presentation. The US is always required to do the heavy lifting for this corrupt organization.) President Obama and ambassador Rice are absolutely wrong. For additional background on why it is time to dismantle this organization the same way of the failed League of Nations <http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Collective-Security-The-1930s-a nd-the-failure-of-the-league-of-nations.html> , visit here. For a look at how the new Republican House of Representatives is planning to deal with the UN please click here. <http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/conservative-in-national/t he-new-republican-house-of-representatives-is-taking-aim-at-the-united-natio ns> Failures of UN Keeping Operations: Iraq: The problem with this system was that it was run by the U.N. in cooperation with Saddam, a man as cunning as he is brutal. Saddam's instinctive ability to spot weakness served him well against the U.N. Time and again, Saddam absorbed the initial blows, the sanctions and the weapons inspections, and then turned them to his advantage. The U.N. could not give in, or accept the bribes, fast enough. It's not just the third world that votes against US interest less we forget <http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/04/investigate-the-united-nat ions-oil-for-food-fraud> France, Russia and China leading the way to kill UN efforts and the numeous sanctions completely ignored by Saddaham Hussein during the oil for food scandal. <http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/unosomi.htm> Somalia/ Mogadishu: The United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM I) was set up to facilitate humanitarian aid to people trapped by civil war and famine. The mission developed into a broad attempt to help stop the conflict and reconstitute the basic institutions of a viable State. Somalia occupies a strategically important geopolitical position at the Horn of Africa. The political culture is influenced by competition among a number of clans and clan-based factions. Of course due to it's failure George W. Bush on December 4, 1992 initiated Operation Restore Hope under which the U.S. would assume unified command. This largely unknown UN failure was brought to the attention of the US and movie going public that watched or read Black Hawk Down. <http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/true-story-black-hawk-down/> Since 1991, an estimated 350,000 to 1,000,000 Somalis had died <http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/somalia.htm> because of the conflict. This was largely due to failure of the UN to act in a timely fashion. Forty-three US Military personnel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war> gave their lives in another failed UN peacekeeping operation. <http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/vietnam2.htm> Vietnam: The Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1949 and Chinese intervention against the United Nations in Korea made U.S.-China policy a captive of Cold War politics. Those events also helped to transform American anti-colonialism into support for the French protectorates in Indochina, and later for their non-Communist successors. American political and military leaders viewed the Vietnam War as the Chinese doctrine of revolutionary warfare in action (using Chinese and Soviet arms, to boot). <http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/55875/max-boot/paving-the-road-to-he ll-the-failure-of-u-n-peacekeeping> Korean War: The baby-blue banner was used as a mere flag of convenience for an American-led alliance Rwanda <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/568566.stm> : The United Nations itself has recently released reports documenting two of its worst stumbles. According to these confessions, U.N. peacekeepers in Rwanda stood by as Hutu slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsi. Bosnia <http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/16/world/un-details-its-failure-to-stop-95-b osnia-massacre.html> : The U.N. declared safe areas for Muslims but did nothing to secure them, letting the Serbs slaughter thousands in Srebrenica. The organization's meddling was worse than useless: its blue-helmeted troops were used as hostages by the Serbs to deter a military response from the West. Governments have increasingly turned to the UN to deal with ethnic and nationalist conflicts that have flared up in many regions since the end of the cold war. While 13 operations were established in the first 40 years of United Nations peacekeeping, 36 new operations have been launched since 1988. At its peak in 1993, the total deployment of United Nations military and civilian personnel reached more than 80,000 from 77 countries. Complex missions which involve simultaneous political, military and humanitarian activities have built upon experience gained in "traditional" UN peacekeeping, which typically involves primarily military tasks-such as monitoring ceasefires, separating hostile forces and maintaining buffer zones. Troops serving in UN peacekeeping operations carry light weapons and are allowed to use minimum force in self-defense, or if armed persons try to stop them from carrying out their authorized tasks. Observers and civilian police are usually unarmed. UN peacekeepers cannot impose peace where there is no peace to keep <http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/pk50_w.htm> . Ya think? However, where the parties to a conflict are committed to solving their differences peacefully, a UN peacekeeping operation can be a catalyst for peace and help create a "breathing space"; a more stable and secure environment in which lasting political solutions can be found and implemented. In closing the UN is made up of 3rd world tin pot dictators, tyrants, and megalomaniacs whom are among the worlds leaders in Human Rights Violations yet American's are greeted with cries that "The US Human Rights Record is "deplorable", including the continuing failure to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Bush Administration. <http://wn.com/war_crimes_and_the_white_house_the_bush_administration%27s_co ver-up_of_the_dasht-e-leili_massacre> Should the US continue to take the insults form a moribund organization? Ask the family of Journalist Daniel Pearl <http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6019110/what-daniel-pearls-decap itation-means-to-barack-obama.thtml> , it seems that decapitating an individual under their warped view of humanity some how doesn't deprive the person of his human rights. Perhaps the US must lead in forming a new alliance using the remarks of George W. Bush when he addressed the joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001 when he said" Either you are with us or with the terrorists." If the U.S. hopes to contain Islam's goal of world-wide subjugation to Allah then it is past time that elected officials in a bipartisan fashion kick this anachronism to the curb. Why should the taxpayer support this corrupt organization when members states vote against United States interests <http://nationalreformsociety.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-time-for-us-to-leave- un-and-remove.html> 70-80% of the time? The timing is perfect for a paradigm shift. Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN, That's my story and I'm sticking to it, I'm J.C. 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