And replace the “never again” we as a people pledged after the Holocaust. On April 20th we’ll have a celebration, in a sense, of Adolf Hitler’s 120th birthday – a grand assembly of racists and anti-Semites will gather in Durban to take up, in the name of the whole world, the issue of racism:
Engagement in this U.N. forum is about giving voice to anti-Semites and racists — under the guise of combating racism. Today Iran used the U.N. megaphone to express its views about human rights as many times as the entire European Union did; Iran was second only to South Africa. Syria took the opportunity to announce it had reservations about the Holocaust paragraph, which reads: “Recalls that the Holocaust must never be forgotten, and in this context urges all U.N. members to implement GA resolutions 60/7 and 61/255.” Iran’s delegate immediately declared “a lot of support for the specific comments of Syria.”
Naturally, President Obama is wary of not “engaging” the world via the Durban conference – I mean, the damage which would be caused by American absence from this anti-Semitic hate-fest is hard to imagine, right?
The problem, dear liberals, with trying to project a favorable image of the United States is that the people who have an unfavorable view of us hate us not for what we do, but for what we are…the Islamists hate us because we’re not Islamic; the Euro-socialists hate us because we’re not socialists; the Chinese hate us because we are powerful and they are not…on and on it goes. While there is some residual hatred of Britain around the world, the plain fact of that matter is that the white-hot hatred we feel here in 2009 was directed towards Britain in 1909 for the same reasons – they were free, the most powerful nation in the world and a force for good. Nations which were enslaved, weaker and had nefarious plans for the world naturally disliked this state of affairs.
Even if we set out on a deliberate, announced policy of appeasement it would not change the world’s view of us – other than adding contempt to hatred. We are the imperial power of the world – the sole power capable of defending liberty and human decency by human agency. If we refuse our office, then there is no one to take it, and the world will become the plaything of wicked people – Britain refused its office in the 1930’s and the reward wasn’t peace, but World War Two. If we want World War Three, all we have to do is abase ourselves before the world and show ourselves unwilling to defend – by muscular and at times violent action – human decency.
Going to Durban and begging pretty-please for anti-Semites to accord some respect to Israel and some remembrance of the Holocaust is the worst thing we can do, and I hope President Obama realizes this before its too late.
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