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Perverted "peacemakers": as the Bush administration's collaboration with the UN becomes more overt, the world body is awash in scandals--from child prostitution to epic international bribery and graft.(UN Corruption)(Cover Story)
During the Senate's debate over ratifying the League of Nations Covenant in 1919, Senator William Borah (R-Idaho) sought to disabuse his colleagues of the idea that a world "peace force" would be a blessing to mankind. An international "peacekeeping" army, warned Borah, would consist of "the gathered scum of the nations organized into a conglomerate international police force ordered hither and thither by the most heterogeneous and irresponsible body or court that ever confused or confounded the natural instincts and noble passions of a people."
Nearly a century later, Borah's prophetic words were echoed by former UN civilian "peacekeeper" Andrew Thomson, a ...
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