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October 27, 2003

US Out, UN In?

I've written before about how the left, even when it appears to be striking a radically antiwar pose, is still incorrigibly interventionist.

More evidence of this comes from Dennis Kucinich's "exit strategy" for the U.S.A. to withdraw from Iraq:

"People are asking, is there a way out? I believe there is. I am writing to share with you a plan that will get the UN in Iraq and the US out. This plan could bring the troops home by New Year’s day, it will cost much less than the President’s, and it will increase American security.

"The President must go to the UN and announce the US intention to hand over all administrative and security responsibilities to the UN. The UN would help Iraqis move quickly toward self-determination."

Why is it that lefties get weak in the knees and start gushing at the mere mention of the sacred UN? What exactly has the UN done in its 50+ years of existence that justifies this unbridled faith in its ability to bring peace and harmony to the world?

The UN is no more than the sum of its parts. And its parts are governments. It's as if all the local mob families united into a sort of super-mob. Would it thereby gain legitimacy?

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Let's face it: Foreign intervention and offensive (or "pre-emptive," to use the euphemism of the day) war are very much left-wing policies, no matter how much the "official" Right seems to support them. The Left generally opposes foreign intervention when a Republican is in charge of it, and the Right generally opposes it when a Democrat is in charge. (The same goes for domestic intervention, for that matter, although to a lesser degree.) It would serve us all well if every American would get it through his head that the two parties are Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Then we could have a serious debate about the issues. As long as people continue to "debate" on the basis of which political party is running things, the real Left is going to prevail.

The U. N. is worse than worthless. The Left right now is primarily using the U. N. as a way to support the war (because the Left is interventionist at heart) without supporting the Bush administration. The Right used the U. N. as one of its excuses for going to war even as the U. N. refused to give its imprimatur to the effort. 'Twould be better to get rid of the U. N. and have smaller, slightly more manageable "mob families" with which to deal. At least then the proponents of foreign intervention would have to admit that they're doing things out of their own interest and not use the U. N. as a crutch.

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