A Forced Truth at the United Nations

President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly today with the usual kaleidoscope of utopian aspiration and misunderstanding.

For example, the idea that the end of war is social justice for everybody. “The men and women who built this institution understood that peace is more than just the absence of war. A lasting peace — for nations and for individuals — depends on a sense of justice and opportunity, of dignity and freedom. It depends on struggle and sacrifice, on compromise, and on a sense of common humanity.” Ergo his admonition for NASA to bolster the self-esteem of the Muslim world. In fact, the only historical deterrent to war is the threat of overwhelming force. the sure knowledge in the heart of every would be tyrant or sponsor of terror that we will in the words of President Kennedy “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

The President suggested that the tide of war is receding” and we are poised to end these wars from a position of strength.” In reality, we are drawing down our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, before achieving a stable peace. We are contemplating major cuts to our defense budget so that we can support a bloated and increasingly clumsy entitlement state. In the “war” against a dime-store dictator in Libya, we followed the French and the British.

To pivot away from another awkward foreign policy blunder, the President was however forced to utter this truth that says so much about the irrelevance of the United Nations; “a genuine peace can only be realized between the Israelis and the Palestinians themselves.”

Some bit of demonstrable truth. Sovereign nations are and must be responsible for their fate and the billions of dollars we contribute to the United Nations serve primarily to maintain a class of lazy and ineffectual Marxists who apologize for the most egregious offenders. Israel’s continued existence owes nothing to the United Nations; quite the contrary.

Our continued support for the charade in Turtle Bay is evidence that things are not changing for the better as the President suggests.