Andrew Sullivan Quotes
...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.
Sullivan, Andrew. Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
In 1983 in the wake of the Korean airliner shootdown, there were diplomatic arguments of landing rights in New York for Russian U. N. diplomats. This prompted some U. N. member nations to call for the removal of the U. N. from New York:
The United States, as the world’s wealthiest nation, paid then for more than 50% of the UN budget.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. International organizations have been notoriously inept at protecting countries from aggression or minorities from persecution and ethnic cleansing and genocide. The Armenian genocide by the Turks was the exemplar at the time, but the UN peacekeepers refused to fight to prevent the Serbs from murdering 7,000 Bosnian Muslims. When they were protecting the Israeli-Palestinian borders, they did nothing to stop Arab Armies from attacking Israel right through the UN Troops. They did nothing to help prevent the Ruanda genocide. UN “troops” are rarely willing to risk their lives for the victimized people or the International Organization itself.
He used the “united nations” as a general description as the UN had not been created or named yet, However, as this quotation demonstrates, the President was already thinking about a UN idea, but as a realist, he explained that the great powers had to come to some agreement of interests. Actually China and France, at the time, would go along with whatever the United States and Britain wanted to do and had a great common interest, and there was already a strong association of interests between Britain and America. Russia was to be the problem and a complete common interest was never to be, but there was enough to get the United Nations started.
Regarding the expose that UN peacekeeping troops were committing sexual atrocities in the Congo. No one was brought to justice or punished.
Andrew Michael Sullivan is a British-American author, editor, and blogger. Sullivan is a political commentator, a former editor of The New Republic, and the author or editor of six books. He started a political blog, The Daily Dish, in 2000, and eventually moved his blog to platforms, including Time, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and finally an independent subscription-based format. He announced his retirement from blogging in 2015. From 2016 to 2020, Sullivan was a writer-at-large at New York. His newsletter The Weekly Dish was launched in July 2020.
