Jed Babbin is well qualified to discuss the important issues of the United Nations and its consistent historical failures and phenomenal corruption. He was the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush.  His contacts with people in and around the United Nations and leaders in other governments make this book very insightful and authoritative. 

The United Nations was formed in 1947 out of the debris of socialist failure of the League of Nations.  Its goals have been as lofty as they have been worthless. These stem from a collective failure to understand human nature and the inhuman impacts of a few totalitarian leaders around the world. The philosophy of the UN was to provide an international forum for nations to discuss disagreements around the world with the intent of avoiding international conflicts and suspicions.  The UN has been an invincible failure in resolving such conflict. 

Furthermore, over the past 68 years the UN has been transformed into a promoter and defender of international terrorism.  As if to trumpet this relationship, at least when the book was written two years ago, the UN flag flies alongside of the Hezbollah flag on the Israeli-Lebanon border, as pictured on p. 155 of this book. Babbin documents many of the relationships between terrorists and the UN.

The phenomenal levels of corruption of the UN are further illuminated in the Oil for Food Scandal. There is now a well known money trail leading from the UN to Saddam in the incredible Oil for Food Scandal. This activity showed how the UN sold its moral legitimacy for oil, stuffed its own pockets at the expense of the Iraqi people, and undermined American pressure on Saddam Hussein, who was, as it turns out, a major cash cow for the UN leaders.  The Oil for Food Scandal provided Saddam the means to bribe politicians, and to literally steal billions of dollars.  All of this activity was being monitored by the UN.  With France and Russia on the UN’s Security Council and many others on the take from Saddam in this Scandal, the UN was never going to support the United States in the invasion of Iraq.    

Babbin also described the continuing raid of the UN on the US Treasury.  The UN staff is populated with a majority staffers from Third World countries who believe that the US Treasury is “the common heritage of mankind”.  UN Secretary General Kofi Annan himself is an anti-American moral relativist who misses no opportunity to transfer power from the United States to the UN.  It must be added that too many Americans believe that the United States should hand over our foreign policies to the UN, in the futile effort of getting permission from the corrupted.

According to Babbin both the UN and the European Union (EU) are morally bankrupt---and open enemies of the United States.  Babbin points out that France and Russia have cost American lives in Iraq in their perverse delaying of American action in the Iraqi War.  The 3 month delay dealing with the corrupt UN demanded by so many, destroyed all elements of surprise and gave Saddam plenty of time prepare, conceal, and redistribute its WMD manufacturing enterprises and stores.

Babbin shows that the UN is more of an international criminal than a dispenser of legitimate international law. We owe no tribute either to the UN or the EU says Babbin.  We should look after our own defense.  As we proceed into more dangerous times, we must develop new relationships with nations less hostile. We shouldn’t expect and don’t need permission from the UN and EU to do that.

Michael R. Fox, Ph.D., is the energy and science analyst for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii and the energy and science writer for Hawaii Reporter. He has nearly 40 years experience in the energy field. He has also taught chemistry and energy at the University level. His interest in the communications of science has led to several communications awards, hundreds of speeches, and many appearances on television and talk shows. He can be reached via email at: mailto:foxm011@hawaii.rr.com