UN: US Lacks "Moral Authority" To Provide Relief to Tsunami Victims

Stunning:

The president has announced that the US, Japan, India and Australia would coordinate the world’s response.

But former International Development Secretary Clare Short said that role should be left to the UN.

“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up,� she said.

“Only really the UN can do that job,� she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme.

“It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.�

As if there were any doubt, there are a group of people in the world who reject any role for sovereign national governments in the world and want, ultimately, a one-world government (or at least a government that handles all of the important non-local governance), probably via the UN.

What's particularly annoying about these people is that they only wheedle their way into positions of power through appointment by bureaucrats who are themselves appointed by other bureaucrats. Only through multiple layers of insulation from actual democratic election can one-worlder socialists/pacifists like Claire Short actually manage to wield major power.

Only the UN has the "moral authority" to provide blankets, water, food, and medicine to the stricken? How much "moral authority" does one need to provide charity to the suffering?

It was somewhat laughable when it was claimed that only the UN's scary-important "moral authority" could suffice to establish a just war. But now Ms. Short is actually claiming that only the UN has the moral authority to give out money and aid.

Unbelievable.

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