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Author Eric Shawn: U.N. Sabotages U.S. Security
Joan Swirsky
Monday, May 15, 2006
"The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's
Security and Fails the World" by Eric Shawn. Penguin Press, 336
pages.
Eric Shawn's new book "The U.N. Exposed" is a blistering attack
on the world body's corruption, hypocrisies, greed, ineptitude,
scandals and crimes against humanity – and it delivers knockout
punches on every page.
Shawn, a veteran Fox News Network anchor who has covered the
United Nations for years, mourns the demise of the organization
that, in his childhood and adolescence, stood for everything he
stood for: "world peace, cooperation, compassion and goodness."
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With clear regret, laced with the contempt and anger reserved for
fallen icons, Shawn reports that today, "less than five miles
from Ground Zero in Manhattan, sits an international hotbed of
anti-Americanism" ... an organization led by "institutional
narcissism" that has fallen from grace in a "decline of its own
making."
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The United Nations, Shawn writes, "only exists in the
imaginations of the people who work there" but where tour guides
sell "the U.N. fantasy in 13 different languages."
In chapter after chapter, many with self-explanatory titles –
including "The U.N. Press Corps Cover-Up," "How the U.N. Funds
Terrorism" and "The International Anthem – Blame America!" –
Shawn details how the U.N. has steadily violated its original
mission to prevent future wars by maintaining member nations'
forces as "peacekeepers."
Instead, Shawn writes, many of the self-important ambassadors of
the U.N.'s 191 member nations, even those from third-world
countries, live in lavish residences, are protected by diplomatic
immunity – which includes exemption from paying $19 million in
New York City parking tickets – are chauffered around in
limousines, dine in fine restaurants and generally live a
lifestyle that "no American not on the Forbes Richest 500 list
will ever see."
China's ambassador, for instance, lives in Trump World Tower,
"where his neighbors pay as much as $14 million" for similar
digs, and Yemen's ambassador, although from the 14th poorest
nation on earth with an average gross annual income of $465,
lives in an Upper East Side townhouse valued at $6.8 million.
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"But we still chip in for it," Shawn reports, explaining that for
the honor of hosting America's adversaries and fair-weather
"allies," the United States pays a whopping 22 percent of the
U.N.'s bloated $1.3 billion annual budget – quite a far cry from
Germany (9.82 percent), France (6.5), the United Kingdom (5.57),
or Canada (2.57).
Shawn's sweeping exposé includes much more than interesting – and
infuriating – factoids. In detailed but highly readable
commentary, he discusses the ways in which the United Nations has
consistently violated its once-noble raison-d'étre. Among those
violations:
# Failing to investigate the Oil-for-Food program intended to
allow Saddam Hussein to sell oil to buy food and medicine for
Iraq's starving and sick population. Instead Saddam used the
money to enrich himself and buy weapons while France, Russia and
China participated in the cover-up, along with U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan's son, Kojo.
# Failing to sanction Saddam when he "rewarded" Palestinian
homicide bombers for murdering Israelis.
# Failing to conduct internal investigations to uproot corruption
and balking at outside monitoring, as it did when former Federal
Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's commission – which found "grave"
conflicts of interest in the Oil-for-Food program – was unable to
subpoena documents or force anyone to testify.
# Failing consistently to condemn terrorist acts.
# Supporting some of the world's most oppressive governments.
# Diverting U.N.-supervised funds into weapons used against
American troops.
# Allowing terrorists and rogue states seeking nuclear weapons to
flout U.N. resolutions.
# Trafficking in kickbacks and bribes.
# Turning a blind eye to the widespread sexual abuse and
exploitation by U.N. "peacekeepers" of girls as young as 12 in
Bosnia, Congo, Haiti, Liberia, et al.
# Electing international thugs like Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to the U.N. Disarmament Commission – the day after
Iran announced its advanced enrichment of uranium.
# Electing brutal human-rights violators like Sudan and Libya to
the U.N. Commission on Human Rights – with Libya chairing the
commission!
# Failing to prevent the 1994 Rwandan genocide of nearly 1
million people.
# Failing to intervene effectively or carry out humanitarian aid
during the second Congo war that claimed nearly 5 million lives
(1998-2002).
# Failing to intervene in the 1995 Srebrebica massacre.
# Failing to deliver food to starving people in Somalia.
# Failing to reveal that a senior official in the U.N.
Development Program, Justin Leites, worked for the Kerry
presidential campaign while on the U.N. payroll.
# Being unremittingly racist and anti-Semitic in its dealings
with member state Israel.
Shawn's book reinforces what a growing number of ordinary
citizens as well as political commentators have come to agree on.
As journalist and author David Frum insists, "It's time to wake
up to reality: The U.N. scandals are not unfortunate accidents.
They are not incidental blots on the reputation of an otherwise
idealistic organization. The scandals are inherent in the very
structure of the U.N. It could be said that the U.N. itself is
the scandal."
Shawn, in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to find
redemption in the corrupt world body, refers to a painting
hanging over the Security Council chamber that depicts a phoenix
rising from the ashes of the world war that created the U.N. in
1945, saying that he hoped the bird meant to symbolize the birth
of a new world will "stand now for the birth of a new U.N."
But if this is not possible, he warns, "and if the U.N. continues
to be little more than a façade, then whenever America stakes out
a position and our diplomats settle in behind the Formica sign
that reads `THE UNITED STATES,' our security will be threatened,
the world will be failed again, and real answers to the day's
biggest problems will have to be sought elsewhere."
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