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Toward a Leninist world order. (Insider Report).
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the totalitarian Soviet Union, defined his ruling philosophy as follows: "Power without limit, resting directly upon force, restrained by no laws, absolutely unrestrained by rules." In 1970, then-UN Secretary-General U Thant, a Burmese Marxist, praised Lenin's vision as "in line with the aims of the UN Charter." Recent UN-related U.S. military ventures are setting the stage for the UN's abandonment of any restraints on its power, including those imposed by its own charter.
The Bush administration's war on Iraq and the Clinton administration's 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia were carried out to advance UN-approved objectives: Forcibly disarming Iraq and enforcing global "human rights" standards in Kosovo. Both of those wars took place without the constitutionally required congressional declaration, and both proceeded without the UN Security Council's explicit authorization. Yet in both instances the UN ratifled these military actions after the fact: A UN "peacekeeping" force runs Kosovo; and the world body will play a central role in administering occupied Iraq.
Writing in the May-June issue of the CFR journal Foreign Affairs, Michael J. Glennon, a scholar of international law, observes that the war on Iraq raises the possibility of a "new institutional framework" for a UN-dominated world order. That framework would be based on pragmatism, rather than legalism; it would dispense with the formalities contained in the UN Charter and allow global rulers to operate according to a "global consensus" they define for themselves.
Most importantly, it would require a total break with the concept of the "law of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Toward a Leninist world order. (Insider Report).