Britain - Blair throws down gauntlet to UN

Or so the BBC would have you believe.

Buried toward the end is this nugget.

Mr Blair did not directly refer to the genocide in Rwanda, often cited by critics of the UN as one of its worst failures, or the situation in Darfur or Sudan.

But he said it was now recognised that states' sovereignty could be overridden by the UN when people were suffering.

Recognised by whom? And if that's true why is nothing being done in Darfur or Sudan?

I also heard on the news that the UN dropped from its definition of terrorism, the phrase that went something like, "the deliberate targeting of civilians anywhere", at the request of Arab states.

And Roger Simon quotes the Washington Post:

The negotiators were forced to put off action on some of the thorniest and most ambitious goals, including proposals to expand the U.N. Security Council, to create an independent auditing board to scrutinize U.N. spending, and to impose basic membership standards for a new Human Rights Council so that chronic rights abusers will not be able to join.

Now do you see why the BBC is slapping Mr. Blair on the back? Nothings changed at the UN and for that the BBC heartly thanks Mr. Blair.

Something else that hasn't changed, at least since the Muslim terrorist bombings in London on 7/7, not one radical Muslim cleric has been expelled as we were promised - "swiftly".

Life goes on unchanged in Londonistan.

UPDATE

I posted that this morning while getting the kids ready for school and missed something important.

The summit has failed to agree a definition of terrorism.

But the UN Security Council backed a resolution brought forward by the UK calling on all states to outlaw incitement to terrorism.

Say what? The BBC wrote that without batting an eye. How can you outlaw incitement to something that is not defined? Typical UN double speak and that's fine with the BBC.

Did you notice what is missing from this article? Where is the gauntlet Blair threw down? Maybe the BBC confused Bush with Blair.

Irish rocker Bob Geldof, who organized the Live Aid concerts and campaigns against poverty, said he was sitting in the General Assembly chamber with U.N. anti-poverty chief Jeffrey Sachs and they couldn't believe what they heard.

``I think he's really throwing down the gauntlet. It's a very bold move,'' Geldof said of Bush's trade tariff proposal, adding that he was impressed with the president's acknowledgment that terrorism ``comes from despair and lack of hope.''

Or maybe Guardian reporters moonlight at the BBC or vice versa.

Or maybe since the gauntlet quote was reported by, EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer, the BBC merely switched the names.
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