With the United Nations becoming increasingly controversial in the United States and beyond, the chorus to start dismantling it is growing louder and louder, and it is getting to be “mainstream.” Indeed, even many neoconservatives, perhaps hoping to keep what remains of their conservative credibility, appear to be joining the bandwagon. In recent years and especially in recent months, with the realization that more and more Americans are waking up to the evil of the UN, the calls for “replacing” the UN with some sort of “democratic” version of it are growing louder.
Writing in National Review Online after the British voted to secede from the European Union, for example, Josh Gelernter, also a regular contributor to the neocon journal Weekly Standard, headlined his article “Let’s Take a Cue From Brexit and Leave the U.N.” “There is no fixing the U.N.,” wrote Gelernter, urging readers to contact Congress and press the case. However, like other neocons, Gelernter went on to call for the creation of a “United Free Nations.”
Before that, Clifford May, the president of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a signatory of the war mongering Project for a New American Century, made a similar argument in a late 2015 piece for the Washington Times. “The U.N. is not the headquarters of some notional ‘international community,’ and it’s certainly not the seed from which a global government should grow,” wrote May, who in the 1980s was reportedly listed as a member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations. “The next administration might consider developing an alternative international organization, one that would include only nations sincerely committed to freedom, democracy, and human rights.”
This article appears in the June 5, 2017, issue of The New American. To download the issue and continue reading this story, or to subscribe, click here.
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