UN vs. Nato Power

By CDR Boyd Nethercott USN (Ret.)

Part 1 of 2

I’m beginning this article with kind words and thoughts toward the media for the enormous amount of good and accurate information we receive on TV, radio, newspapers, etc. We as a people are being well-informed on the history and current events concerning the mid-east crisis and the search for terrorist cells. I applaud that enlightenment and dismiss the pacifists and scoffers and non-supporters.

Following the terrible war-like attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, and in following the many related media reports, I was alarmed at the lack of knowledge of our citizenry in their contributions to a national poll (September 21) resulting in nine out of ten U.S. citizens wanting the UN to now “play a major role” in the “terrorism fight.” That the UN should now take over!

The United States does not now need that kind of complication! George W. Bush has already dealt with allies and other important nations directly for support to help eliminate terrorist cells and their supporters. Our enemy is the extreme elements of the fundamentalist Moslem groups which we must destroy.

I divide the religion of Islam roughly into three basic groups. (1) The main stream multi-millions of Moslems, by far the largest. (2) The fundamentalists attempting to turn back to the 10th century and overturn Islamic Nations. They harbor terrorists.
(3) The extreme murderous terrorist groups nourished by the fundamentalists.
Our president now has a working coalition of nations. If the UN desires to publicly support and rubber-stamp upcoming NATO strategies, they may do so. But let us not run our present operations through the UN machinery!

The UN composed of 189 nations consists mostly (in numbers) of states and nations which are dictatorships, socialists, despots, kingdoms and numbers of so-called “republics.” Many know little of our type of democracy, (the U.S. is a Federal Republic — see “World Almanac 2001 “.) The UN is a dissolute conglomeration. I count 26 of the UN states, or nations, as either all or mostly Moslem. Many other states have Moslem populations. There are one billion Moslems, 20% of those are Arab.

The UN General Assembly would place the “terrorism problem” on the agenda for debate, argument, and solution. Then, the Security Council would take it up for debate and action. We don’t want that! The U.S. needs to deal directly with nations of its own choosing.

The UN could for the good of the world, be concerned among themselves with feeding refugees, stopping hijacking, helping cut off terrorist funding, stopping hostage-taking now and in the future; the UN could be a source of gathering information and intelligence. After all, some of the UN nations have now or in the past been involved in supporting or financing or supplying, hiding, and encouraging terrorist-fundamentalist organizations. These infested nations are identified as Afghanistan Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yeman.