Bush is undermining the U.N.'s "moral authority"
In an article in the Scotsman, former U.N. International Development Secretary Clare Short says that president Bush is undermining the U.N.'s "moral authority" by, setting up and coordinating our own three nation relief effort for the tsunami aide, and not letting the U.N. handle it all.
United States President George Bush was tonight accused of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster.
The president has announced that the US, Japan, India and Australia would coordinate the world’s response.But former International Development Secretary Clare Short said that role should be left to the UN.
“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up,” she said.“Only really the UN can do that job,” she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme.
“It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.”Ms Short said the coalition countries did not have good records on responding to international disasters.She said the US was “very bad at coordinating with anyone” and India had its own problems to deal with.
“I don’t know what that is about but it sounds very much, I am afraid, like the US trying to have a separate operation and not work with the rest of the world through the UN system,” she added.
First off the U.N. has NO moral authority whatsoever, ah, oil for food, U.N. personnel raping people in Africa, just to name a few. The Bush administration has every reason in the world to distrust the corrupt U.N. We, the U.S. taxpayer, waste enough money by giving it to the ridiculous irrelevant U.N. we do not need to give them more to waste through their mis-management. We should be cutting their money off all together until some real reform is made there. Ms. Short's comments are beyond ridiculous, they show her anti American bias and her close mindedness from living in her la la land to long.
United States President George Bush was tonight accused of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster.
The president has announced that the US, Japan, India and Australia would coordinate the world’s response.But former International Development Secretary Clare Short said that role should be left to the UN.
“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up,” she said.“Only really the UN can do that job,” she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme.
“It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.”Ms Short said the coalition countries did not have good records on responding to international disasters.She said the US was “very bad at coordinating with anyone” and India had its own problems to deal with.
“I don’t know what that is about but it sounds very much, I am afraid, like the US trying to have a separate operation and not work with the rest of the world through the UN system,” she added.
First off the U.N. has NO moral authority whatsoever, ah, oil for food, U.N. personnel raping people in Africa, just to name a few. The Bush administration has every reason in the world to distrust the corrupt U.N. We, the U.S. taxpayer, waste enough money by giving it to the ridiculous irrelevant U.N. we do not need to give them more to waste through their mis-management. We should be cutting their money off all together until some real reform is made there. Ms. Short's comments are beyond ridiculous, they show her anti American bias and her close mindedness from living in her la la land to long.
posted by low26 at 5:34 AM
2 Comments:
Bush was right, the countries that he chose were the best for the cause, India has a strong presence in the subcontinent, Australia has a good presence in the other affected areas..
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