The US is taking advantage of the UN

The United Nation (UN) during its founding period was limited to those nations that declared war on at least one of the Axis Powers in World War II, and thus were capable of taking a stand up against evil. The modern United Nation has become a pawn in the hand of the world’s only superpower. In 1959, John Birch Society declared a campaign: ‘Get US out of the UN’, stating that the UN’s aim was to establish a ‘One World Government’.

The US is now trying to get support from the UN on military action against Syria. Dreams of the Arab Spring have been shattered and the concept of war has got a new face. Since the Vietnam War, the US have been taking advantage of the UN. In the past 10 years, the US imposed war on Afghanistan, Iraq and other nations, thus killing thousands of innocent people, with support from the UN. In these circumstances, a change is needed for the UN to avoid another world war.

In 2004, former ambassador to the UN, Dore Gold, published a book called ‘Tower of Babble: How the United Nations has Fuelled Global Chaos’. The book criticised the organisation’s moral relativism in the face of genocide and terrorism that occurred between the moral clarity of its founding period and the present day. There has been criticism that the five permanent members of the Security Council, which are all nuclear powers, have created an exclusive nuclear club whose powers are unchecked. Unlike the General Assembly, the Security Council does not have true international representation. This has led to accusations that the Security Council only addresses the strategic interests and political motives of the permanent members.

The first move for the UN is to get out of the US and establish headquarters elsewhere. The US is taking advantage of the UN presence in New York. Another important issue is the superpowers of the Security Council, which the UN must abolish, especially veto powers to Permanent Security Council members, and instead give all power to the General Assembly.

- The reader is a Pakistani development consultant based in Karachi, Pakistan.