Here is a chain of logical links that needs to be fed to every American with their mothers' milk: When you say the United Nations (UN), you mean all of humanity. When you denigrate the UN, you denigrate humanity. When you denigrate the UN because it does not protect human rights, you denigrate humanity for not protecting itself. But protecting itself from who? From those, like the Americans who denigrate it.
And that's an invitation for
humanity to spit in America's face, the self-designated slanderer of humanity,
falsely pretending to protect human rights from humanity itself.
But why would the Americans
want to place themselves in a situation as horrendous as this? Looking for an
answer to this question, we delve into the article that came under the title:
“China's accession to human rights body shows how much of a disgrace the UN
really is,” written by Zachary Faria, and published on October 14, 2020 in The
Washington Examiner.
If you think that the title of
that article shows how the writer was incensed––calling humanity a disgrace the
way that he did––when he sat to write the article, wait till you see what he
says in the first paragraph. Actually, the paragraph is made of two sentences
that go like this: “In case it hasn't been clear for years now, the United
Nations wanted to be sure everyone knows that it is a catastrophic joke. So it
just placed China on the Human Rights Council.” Now, Zachary Faria calls
humanity a catastrophic joke.
But why would he say that?
Well, he is not shy about telling why he would. Here is his explanation: “The
US pays dues to the UN to the tune of $674 million in 2019. In return, the UN
dedicates its time and resources to attacking Israel while turning a blind eye
to the abuses of countries like China, Russia, and Iran.” In other words, Faria
is saying that the UN is so incorruptible, America could not buy it for $674
million and have it protect the war criminal that is Israel in lieu of what
it's doing now, which is to work with the nations that matter, and whose
overriding interest is to improve the human condition.
In short and as a bottom line,
what is it that Zachary Faria wants America to do? Well, here is the closing
argument in which he tells what he wants: “The UN is not going to change no
matter how much the US tries to change it from the inside. Joe Biden's promise
to rejoin the World Health Organization and the UN Human Rights Council will
make taxpayers fund a bureaucracy that opposes American values. It is past time
for the US to focus on other global efforts to promote American interests”.
But what exactly are American
interests in the world, and how to serve them? Whereas Zachary Faria, did not
spell out what that is, Ilan Berman made an attempt at explaining how to
approach the matter. To that end, he wrote: “Charting China's plummeting
popularity around the world,” an article that also came under the subtitle:
“Can Washington parlay increasing negative views of China into a competitive
strategy?” The article was published on October 13, 2020 in The Washington
Times.
As can be seen from the title
and subtitle of the article, Ilan Berman is hinting that because America may
have a hard time walking the walk, it should play the role of the opportunist
and take advantage of the fact that China has flinched –– and talk the talk
selling itself to a world that has had it below China for a time now. Here is
how Berman blared what he thinks is the good news: “There's no denying that
Beijing has an image problem. Traditional views of China as a constructive
global actor have plummeted around the world, while suspicions about China's
strategic intentions are on the rise”.
Even with a development that
injected a shot in America's arm, Ilan Berman still believes that America's
success will not come as easily as a cakewalk. And so, after explaining the
situation as he sees it, laying out the statistics to prove every point he
made, he offered the following conclusion:
“That debunks the notion that
Beijing enjoys the upper hand in its unfolding 'great power competition' with
the West. The question is whether Washington can parlay the negative views of
China that predominate in a growing number of capitals into a competitive
strategy by which to contain Beijing on the world stage. On that score, at
least, the jury is still out”.
Whether it is Zachary Faria or
Ilan Berman, the two men do not seem to accept the painful thought that the
glory days of America being the sole superpower on the planet, are gone forever.
But they also know that this is the inescapable reality that America may never
be able to turn around.
Nevertheless, Faria chose to
deal with his pain by throwing insults at the UN, using it as proxy for a
humanity that made the current condition possible. As to Berman, he chose to
hang his hopes on America being able to rally other nations, and together get
ahead of China while at the same time, seeing China damage its own standing in
the world.
There can only be one thing to say to all that: Someday, those two dudes will wake up and realize that this can be anything but glorious.