The UN Demonstrates Its Impotence Once Again

Victor Comras at the Counterterrorism Blog looks at the ultimate failure of the UN to call a spade a spade.

A major reform effort in the UN has failed miserably and may only survive by compromises which will make the document meaningless. He writes, "We should all be saddened by news that the negotiators in New York have dropped the inclusion of a clear definition of terrorism from their reform program. Previous efforts, extending over 8 years, had failed to come up with an agreed terrorism definition."

As per usual, the dissenters who managed to scuttle the language were Islamic countries who sponsor jihad around the world, led by Saudi Arabia. In spite of the rhetoric coming out of Riyadh and their half-hearted attempts to appear "anti-terror," their actions here reveal the emptiness of their words.

Comras continues, "The absence of a terrorism definition seriously hinders any effort to coordinate an international response to terrorism. Without a common definition countries remain free to interpret their own obligations and define for themselves which groups are terrorists and which are “freedom fighters.” Saudi Arabia uses this distinction, for example, to get away with funding Hamas, while Iran and Syria use it to provide funds and support to Hezbollah. But, many other countries have also used it to avoid taking steps to freeze funds or take other civil or criminal action against those individuals or groups which they support."

As long as countries which sponsor Islamic expansionism have a seat at the UN's table, this type of obstructionism will continue. It is time for the US and other Western Christian democracies to abandon the UN and focus on fighting the ongoing war against militant Islam.