Terror Stings Its Pal, the U.N.

[bemildred]

Not advocating this, I just thought it was
interesting to watch Mr. Dearth-of-wits "mind"
at work.

Several days ago I received a phone
call from a Brazilian journalist who
asked me to respond to the charge
being made in her home country that
Israel was at least indirectly to blame
for the deadly truck bombing of the
United Nations headquarters in
Baghdad that killed, among others, a
prominent Brazilian diplomat, Sergio
Vieira de Mello.

I was not surprised at the question,
considering its source. Among many
South Americans, as among many
Eastern Europeans, the knee-jerk
response to nearly every evil is
"blame it on the Jews." For example,
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez
Meridiaga, the archbishop of
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has blamed
the "Jewish media" for the scandal
involving Catholic priests having sex
with young parishioners.

But the question got me to thinking:
Who does share the blame with the
terrorists themselves for the horrific
explosion that killed and injured so
many innocent people? Although the
primary culprit is clearly the terrorist
group that planned and executed the
mass murder, the secondary culprit is the U.N. itself.

For more than a quarter of a century, the U.N. has
actively encouraged terrorism by rewarding its primary
practitioners, legitimating it as a tactic, condemning its
victims when they try to defend themselves and
describing the murderers of innocent children as
"freedom fighters." No organization in the world today
has accorded so much legitimacy to terrorism as has
the U.N.

LA Times

[Darranar]

1. I'm not going to register to read the rest of it...

but that's crazy. Simply crazy. It is more neocon junk.

[bemildred]

2. It's up in Editorials too.

He manages to trash Latin American AND Eastern Europe
on the basis of a statement by one Honduran Catholic
prelate. I thought that had to be some sort of record.