A new alliance against mass genocide
In The Times today, Adam LeBor (author of Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide) makes a powerful case for the expulsion of Sudan from the United Nations. He asks:
If the UN cannot or will not, stop genocide, then what is the point of its existence?Mr LeBor is exactly right. The UN has singularly failed to deal with mass genocide wherever and whenever it has occurred - in the Congo, Iraq, Rwanda, or Sudan. The UN has proved itself totally incapable of dealing with dictatorship and totalitarian regimes.
It is time for a new alliance of democracies - of states who abide by democratic values and believe in the rule of law - perhaps emerging from Nato. This new alliance would be tasked with stopping mass genocide and dealing with dictatorial regimes. It would have a primary role in dealing with the threat posed by totalitarian Islam. It would both have a military force at its disposal but would also engage - winning hearts and minds though special media initiatives, major education programmes and developmental assistance.
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