Re: One more outfit that needs to be gone!
- From: holman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eugene Holman)
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:34:37 +0200
In article <cIednQsPb-qVvBreRVn-qg@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "henry alminas"
<halminas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For educational purposes only:
>
> It should be no mystery by now that I
> believe that that cesspool of corruption
> and cheering section for assorted and
> horribly perverted dictatorial regimes
> should be wiped out. Yes, yes, yes
> - I am talking about the UN.
The UN has done a good job keeping the world at relative peace since 1945.
UN agencies have also played a major role in disaster relief, disease
control, women's issues, and education.
> Waal - there is another one - the
> OSCE.
The OSCE did extremely important work overseeing human rights monitoring
efforts in the former Soviet Union as well as in the countries that
emerged from the USSR. The Baltic countries would not have the respected
international status that they have today if they had not cooperated
closely with the OSCE in doing such things as drawing up legislation
pertaining to the status of minorities, observing the implementation of
language tests for citizenship in Estonia and Latvia, and reviewing the
trials concerning the possible deportation of former members of the Soviet
military and intelligence services from the Baltic countires.
> As soon as you permit the russkies to
> infiltrate an organization you can expect
> but two things - subversion and perversion!!
>
> That is what was permitted to happen in
> the UN and that is what was permitted to
> happen in the OSCE.
Given that Russia occupies one seventh of the surface of the planet and is
the largest country in both Europe and Asia, it would be impossible to
have any kind of world organization without Russian participation.
> Kill both organizations - I say - and, if
> absolutely necessary - start over.
You would still have to uinclude Russia as well as a large number of other
countries that you might not happen to like.
> Sadly - the EU as well as NATO has
> permitted the Kremlin to insinuate itself
> into the "house". A serious error.
Hey, Russians are eople, too! They have just as much of a right to belong
and be herd in international organizations as anyboy else. Or do you long
for a world in which the fate of the planet is decided in smoke-filled
rooms in London, Paris, and Washington D.C.?
> The EU, I fear, is now history.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. We are getting along quite well, thank you very much.
And the Euro, despite your dire predictions to the contrary before it was
introduced, is still trading at a rate close to 20% higher than the
dollar. We must be doing something right.
> NATO, however, might yet be saved.
Like the EU, NATO also acknowledges the geopolitical realities and
coordinates many of its policies and actions with Russia.
> Read about the OSCE at:
>
> http://www.jamestown.org/edm/
>
> In the article:
>
> OSCE'S YEAR-END MEETING: QUIET SURVIVAL
> THROUGH MINIMAL RELEVANCE
> By Vladimir Socor
> Wednesday, November 23, 2005
That's his take and he is entitled to it. The OSCE is not as important as
it was ten years ago because it made such a great contribution then to
resolving problems and conflicts. Its current "minimal relevance" is
attributable to its being a victim of its own success.
The creation of the OSCE back in 1975 resulted in the internationalization
of human rights abuses. That gave an internationally recognized legal
basis for the process that eventually led to the collapse of the USSR.
For a more up-beat view on the OSCE, "the world's largest regional
security organization whose 55 participating States span the geographical
area from Vancouver to Vladivostok," see its website at
http://www.osce.org/.
Best,
Eugene Holman
.
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