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Superman
for Secretary of State
by
Cliff
Kincaid [commentator]
8/2/06 |
Herbert London,
president of the Hudson Institute, say the new "Superman Returns" movie
is politically correct in that the man of steel has come back
not to protect the American way of life but to save the world.
Superman, London says in a Washington Examiner column, "has
been converted into a transnationalist. I suspect that in a
sequel, Superman will be employed by the United Nations."
One might
say, if that was the case, the world body might actually get
something constructive done, rather than sexually abuse kids
and spread AIDS through its "peacekeepers."
London goes
on to say, "Superman is a symbol of extraordinary actions,
actions-I should note-that only the United States can perform.
If the day comes when American military forces are obliged
to wear a U.N. insignia, the United States' stature on the
world stage will be in decline."
Contributor
Cliff Kincaid
Cliff Kincaid, serves as editor of the Accuracy
in Media (AIM) Report. A veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff has
appeared on the Fox News programs Hannity & Colmes and The O'Reilly Factor,
where he debated O'Reilly on global warming, the death penalty, and the homosexual
agenda. He was a guest co-host on CNN's Crossfire (filling in for Pat Buchanan)
in the 1980s, where he confronted the then-Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. with
evidence of Libyan involvement in international terrorism. Through his America's
Survival, Inc., organization (www.usasurvival.org),
he has been an advocate on behalf of the families of victims of terrorism and
has published reports and held conferences critical of the United Nations.
His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Chronicles,
Human Events, Insight, and other publications. He served on the staff
of Human Events for several years and was an editorial writer and
newsletter editor for former National Security Council staffer Oliver North
at his Freedom Alliance educational foundation. He has written or co-authored
nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues. Cliff is
married and has three sons.[go to Kincaid index]
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Well,
I've got news for him: that day has come.
It occurred under the Clinton Administration
when Army Specialist Michael New was ordered
to wear a U.N. uniform, including a U.N.
insignia. New was given a bad-conduct discharge
for refusing to carry out this illegal and
unconstitutional order. The additional tragedy
is that the Bush Administration has continued
the Clinton policy of putting our troops
under U.N. command and in U.N. uniforms,
despite the campaign pledge of George W.
Bush not to do so.
Attorneys
for Michael New have fought this case in
the courts for over 10 years. Most recently
they filed
a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals
in Washington on the Fourth of July, for
an en banc hearing on his recent
dismissal by a three-judge panel from the
same court.
"By
the current Uniform Code of Military Justice," their
press release points out, "President Bill
Clinton should have been either court-martialed,
or impeached, for attempting to change the
U.S. uniform in direct contradiction of the
Army Regulations then existing."
The
Bush Administration's continuation of the
Clinton policy reflects one of the key failings
of the President-his inability or unwillingness
to reform federal bureaucracies in order
to carry out his campaign promises.
Despite
the welcome nomination of John Bolton as
Ambassador to the world body, U.S. policy
toward the U.N. is being handled largely
by Nicholas Burns, the Undersecretary of
State for Political Affairs and a Clinton
Administration holdover. He has engineered
several moves to appease the anti-American
majority at the U.N., such as the recent
decision by the U.S. to drop insistence on
a budget cap in order to force the adoption
of reforms. A career senior foreign service
officer, Burns was Spokesman for the Department
of State and Acting Assistant Secretary for
Public Affairs for Secretary of State Warren
Christopher and Secretary Madeleine Albright
during the Clinton Administration.
Burns,
who was recently on all of the Sunday interview
shows discussing the North Korean problem,
is also the architect of the Bush/Clinton
Administration policy on Kosovo, which anticipates
the dismemberment of Serbia and the establishment
of an independent Muslim state in its province
of Kosovo.
But
like his policy toward the U.N., this approach
is running into several problems. Russian
President Vladimir Putin has said that if
Kosovo becomes independent, Abkhazia and
South Ossetia in Georgia should similarly
become independent.
In
a BBC interview,
Burns protested that "Kosovo is unique." Because
a "major international war was fought there," he
insists, "Kosovo's sovereignty needs to be
determined and agreed by all of us in the
international community."
But
that war, waged by the Clinton Administration,
was never approved either by the U.S. Congress
or the U.N.!
Letting
the "international community" decide the
national sovereignty of a country under these
circumstances is not only unique but unprecedented
and dangerous. This kind of diplomatic doublespeak
opens the door for more U.N. authority and
control over the nations of the world.
Notwithstanding
the failure of the U.N. force in Lebanon,
U.N. chief Kofi Anan is now calling for another
U.N.-backed force to help restore Lebanon's
sovereignty. It demonstrates how the world
body exploits its own failures to grow in
size and influence.
Will
Rice back a U.N. role in Lebanon? She should
make a break with Burns. CRO
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2006 Accuracy in Media www.aim.org
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