The M Files: A Look at Article One of the United Nations Charter
1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;
The UN failed to maintain the international peace and security when it failed to enforce the consequences of any of the 17 resolutions against Iraq's former regime; the UN failed to take collective measures for the prevention and removal of the threats to the peace as presented by Iraq's former regime; nor did the UN suppress the acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace by the former Iraq regime, or brought about by peaceful means, and in the conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to the breach of the peace by the former Iraq regime.
17 resolutions. All promising the resumption of hostilities if Iraq's former regime failed to comply. Saddam Hussein did not comply. He mocked the UN and its inspectors. He mocked the world. And he mocked his agreements to disarm.
2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
The UN failed to develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self determination of peoples when they failed to take action against the former Iraq regime in light of the genocide that took place there. And the UN failed to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace, again because the UN failed to back any of the 17 resolutions that the UN passed regarding the former Iraq regime.
Saddam Hussein killed thousands of his own people while the UN looked on and did nothing. He made a mockery of equal rights and the self determination of his people. And he certainly made a mockery of "universal peace."
3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion;
The UN failed to achieve international cooperation in solving the international problems of enforcing their 17 resolutions calling for the disarming of Iraq's former regime. The UN failed to promote or encourage respect for human rights or the fundamental freedom of Iraq’s people when they sat by watching the genocide.
4. To be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.
The UN failed to be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of the above common ends when the UN failed to take action in support of the 17 resolutions passed by the UN to disarm the former regime of Iraq.
Is it too much to ask the UN to support its own charter?
MATT
EXCELLENT ARGUMENT by Mark
For those out there who said we are merely purveyors of hate and vitriol, well, I think that stuff above here is a very logical argument. I think arguments based on FACTS are very logical. My friend Matt is very logical in his arguments, which is not to say he is not passionate. I get passionate, Matt explores the Facts. That is why together we are the Big Guys with Big Ideas. Together, we kick butt and disprove the lies the media are telling us, and the lies of the leftist propagandists out there. 'Nuff Said!!!
Mark
