Has The U.N. Lost Its Say for Good?

 By Alex Rivero                                                                       March 22, 2003   

      It is safe to say that now, after a twelve-year free pass given to him by United Nations, that Saddam Hussein is getting what he so rightfully deserves.

Despite angered, anti-American voices heard around the globe protesting a U.S. "unilateral, imperialistic, unmoral and unjust" war on the Iraqi dictator, President Bush, Prime Minister Blair, Prime Minister Aznar, and forty other national leaders have provided full moral support for the ousting of Hussein.

Yet where does the commencement of the war leave the global authority of the United Nations? Has it been altered? Is it laughable?

 Meant to represent order, stability, diplomacy, and justice among the international community, the U.N. failed to show any of these qualities over the past several months. France, the most obvious example, signed onto Resolution 1441 in November of 2002, agreeing to not only force Saddam Hussein to disarm his well-hidden arsenal, but to support any military action taken if this need was not met.

Yet as an obvious attempt by President Chirac to protect his lucrative oil contract with Iraq, he now opposes the very resolution he signed onto a few months ago, declaring that the skirmish can be “solved diplomatically.”

Diplomacy has been tried and tried again. After all, it took the United States twelve long years to arrive at the conclusion that diplomacy was not going to work in this case, and even then Americans asked that inspectors be sent into the region to make certain that no illegal weapons of mass destruction were being produced. 

So, after this diplomatic debacle, what can be said about French, German, and Russian influence in the rebuilding of Iraq?

For starters, the allied forces should determine what should be done with the region. After all, they were the ones who spilled blood in order to liberate it in the first place. French, German, and Russian opinions should be ignored, because if it were up to them, Hussein would still be in power and would remain a constant threat to the world, the resolutions of the past would continue to be violated, and millions of Iraqis would still be suffering under his totalitarian boot.

So, with a victory for the allies in the near future, I say this. Welcome to freedom, Iraq. Let the allied forces; the U.S., Great Britain, Spain, Australia, and all the other members of the coalition of the willing, guide you to a great future.

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