united nations

With all the controversy that surrounded the appointment of John Bolton (haha I accidentally wrote Michael Bolton at first) as the US ambassador to the UN, the man had a point. The UN is messed up.

The year is 2008: you’re sitting in a haze, staring at a newly opened Microsoft Word document. The occasional chimes of forgotten AIM conversations catch your attention for a few fleeting moments, but you remain lost in your thoughts. You feel as though you no longer hold reign over your life; your voice was lost amidst the rabble.

Whenever I have a general conversation about politics, government, or morals, I usually direct the subject towards the issue of the genocide in Darfur. Many are aware of the crisis, but I’m not too surprised when someone responds by saying, "What’s Darfur?" I’m not offended by one’s lack of knowledge on the situation, because it is entirely underreported in the news.

Two decades of violence have drenched Uganda in blood. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have captured children, forced them to become soldiers, and brainwashed them with terrible lies. They define training as killing another child, murdering those who refuse to comply. They rub shea nut oil on the children’s skin, and say the bullets will bounce off.

So in 1948 the General Assembly of United Nations came up with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As I was reading through several of the 30 articles from this following website, http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html, I encountered good and bad feelings. The good feelings were that people of the UN thought to put these human rights in documentation back in 1948.

Tired of the World’s Opinion.

I spent last week in The Hague for a Model United Nations conference. I had a good time and I really appreciated the week away from home. But the conference only reconfirmed what I already thought...The United Nations doesn't accomplish anything. All they do is debate all day and then they can't even enforce what solutions they come up with.

My sister was watching The Sentinel while I was on the computer earlier today. I wasn't really paying attention to the movie until the "President" said something along the lines of "We should ratify the Kyoto Protocol." Obviously, this is Hollywood talking. But I agree with this statement.