The UN speaks, and the world listens. Are we nuts?

Robert Fulford, NP:

“Having no authority with loftier credentials to turn to, we habitually and foolishly believe what the UN says”

With Gaza quiet and the civil war ended in Sri Lanka, the United Nations has put its investigators on the job, assigning them to produce official reports that will almost certainly add to the world’s store of duplicity and hypocrisy.

Next month a team from the UN Human Rights Council will hold hearings in Gaza on war crimes possibly committed during the Israel-Hamas fighting. In Geneva on Monday the Council will begin studying Sri Lanka because (as its typically pompous statement declares), “The international community must strive to deliver justice to victims of human rights violations wherever they occur and ensure that those found guilty of such crimes are held accountable for their actions.”

One of the wonders of the world is the reputation of the United Nations. There are many people in many countries who believe (or claim to believe) that it can be relied on for fairness, honesty and competence. Year after year it embarrasses itself through everything from deep bureaucratic corruption to utter failure in dealing with global crises like the genocide in Darfur. Yet somehow its opinions and “facts” still carry weight.

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