Whose Fault Is It Anyway?

Talk about adding insult to injury. The UN is getting down on the Iraqi government for HUMAN fucking RIGHTS violations???!!!

Ummm, this is like the pot, no...more like the caldron calling the fucking kettle "black". The UN, though it is certainly supposed to represent the interests of all its member countries, is basically the "multilateral" arm of the Western powers. And, the UN has deployed troops to places all over the world in the interest of sustaining peace...

Let me take a moment here to interject. I'm all for peace, even though it's a human fantasy. We live in a world of violence, from the day we are born until we die. Our birthing is violent, our eating is violent, our force-based social hierarchy is violent, our internal and external race-, gender- and culture wars are violent. Get over the peace thing. And that's different than being a warmonger, it's called being realistic. Anywho...

The UN has sent troops (funny that an international diplomatic organization has troops, huh?) to places all over the world in an attempt to sustain peace, but always from the perspective of one party or another. Most often, it is to protect the status quo.

The only people attached to the status quo are the people who benefit from it. In this case, we're talking about the US and Europe (for the most part).

So, the US and Europe sent in the UN to evaluate the human rights status of Iraq, a country that had no weapons of mass destruction (we do), and a relatively stable government in place when we boldly INVADED. So, if we're talking about violating rights, I think we need to start this conversation from another point entirely.