Today marks the anniversary of the charter that created the United Nations in 1945. It is on this very day that we find that the Chechen terrorists holding some 400 people hostage in a Moscow theater have executed their first hostage. The days for being passive about the global war on terror are over, and on this anniversary of the creation of the United Nations, a renewed call can be heard, shouted, from the world?s people that we are not to be held hostage by terror. The call for a firm hand in the war on terror are not coming from the victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center, from those burned alive in Bali, or from scared citizens awaiting their fate in a Moscow theater. The calls are coming from those who are the next victims, the citizenry of humanity.
The United Nations has dishonored it?s charter by allowing villainy to dictate a policy of appeasement that has given rise to a notion that peace is better than justice. There will never be a peace without first establishing a system of justice whereby terrorists and perpetrators of crimes against humanity can be held accountable for their actions by military consequences. Unfortunately innocent civilians get killed in these actions, but there are 400 innocent hostages right now wondering where the war on terror fell short.
Do the terrorists holding the theater expect their demands to be met? Surely not after they reportedly killed a hostage this morning. There is no way the authorities were going to deal with a killer in Washington that had stooped to the lowest criminal denominator- money. Nor should the Chechen rebels expect any better, in the days since the murderous bombings killing nearly two hundred in Bali, the world has begun to take a less neutral view of terrorism as once innocuous countries like Australia get pulled into the fray that has plagued Israel for decades. The Chechen terrorists have tossed any hope for negotiation out the window. Just as police were not likely to deal with a suburban sniper leaving notes, and later demands around Washington, the Chechens have pretty much sealed their fate and perhaps, the fate of the hostages with them.
The United Nations and their Euro-supporters can be clearly observed sitting on the sidelines attempting to maintain a ?peaceful? status quo that only emboldens further terror actions. As far as the UN is concerned, the US and the United Kingdom are the villains for holding the United Nations to the Security Council resolutions Iraq has ignored. The body, in it?s preamble, states it is ?determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind?, but setting a precedent allowing dictators and terrorists to continue in their paths only creates a situation where perpetrators of heinous crimes know they will not be held accountable for their actions.
Will the United Nations condemn the Chechen terrorists in more than a hollow and a superficial manner? Doubtful. This distressing course of events being played out in a Moscow theater only reminds us that the United Nations has dropped the curtain on freedom once again. Their encore will not vary much from those before as the UN chooses tyranny over freedom. Full support must be given to the Russians as they work to eradicate the terror problem within their own borders. Will the countries of the world and the United Nations rally around the Russians as quickly as they condemned the bombings of Sept 11th or those in Bali? We hope so.
The days for being passive about the global terror threats are over, and unfortunately the United Nations fosters more terrorism with their position of appeasement than they deter. May God be with the hostages in Moscow.
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Stephen A. McDonald writes for www.BigTreeNews.com