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In my opinion UN is not no more suitable
for the Third World countries.
Shahbaz Rasheed
Karachi, Pakistan
As a matter of fact we should not talk about the future impact, rather we should
focus on the present impact of the UN under the present scenario. The UN has
lost all its credibility
US aggression against Iraq is not a simple war on Iraq; It is a message to the
world nations especially for Muslim countries that there is the will of mighty
America that will prevail.
Well, Having attacked Iraq
without the sanction of the UN, it has been proved that there was only U of US
and rest only NO.
UN had so far been exploited
to please American government and its hawks. I think this is the first time that
Nations sitting in the UN Security council took a bold step to lend their
support to the US. At least they made action of US illegal and immoral.
Therefore, if UNO has no constructive role then there is no need of UNO to exist anymore and its political role should be ended forth with and only agencies doing humanitarian good should be retained. In this way, at least countries will be saved from the use of the UN by the US against them.
Abdul Hameed Abro
The
credibility of the UN has undermined by none other than the UN itself. The
invasion on Iraq by USA is a consequence of that “lack of credibility” not
the cause of it.
Rubab
Mehdi
London
The UN organization
"earned" noble price for peace not too long ago, and since then has
failed to stop two wars. UN Secretary General has always been shameless. He
never stood up to resign at the stage when Israeli government did not let the UN
inspectors to visit Jenin after a massacre there. It is irony thatthe
organization is just watching the war on the TVs mounted inside the UN premises
... aired by the US channels. Did someone hear the word resign?
M. Salman Zafar
Jakarta
The
unilateral US attack on Iraq has undermined the credibility of the United Nation
and has given a way to the powerful nations to threaten their small
neighbors.
Altaf
HUSSAIN
Salzburg, AUSTRIA
The US has shown
that the UN lacked credibility to enforce the goals of world peace. For
Libya to oversee human rights and Iraq to oversee disarmament is a joke.
The US did the right thing and now the world has to review the spineless acts of
cowardice that the US did not engage in.
What is fascinating
is how well the war is going. While Iraqis are not surrendering in as
large numbers as last time, they are surrendering. They can't surrender in
as large numbers because the army is so much smaller now.
In addition, as
Iraqis continue to die because their leader forces them to take arms against the
coalition or get killed by their own people, the Iraqi Himmlers can continue to
say "patriotic resistance" is holding up the coalition. This, of
course, is pure garbage. Suicide bombers? Kamakazi fighters didn't
help Japan, and are hardly held in high regard by historians today.
The farce of the Arab world is our inability to face up to our own
shortcomings. We continue to lie to ourselves about what we want to
believe about the world, regardless of how idiotic it is. We say we hate
Saddam, but we hate the people who finally come to remove him more? This
is pure idiocy. Let us finally join together with the rest of the world,
and we will rise once again to prominence. By engaging in continued hatred
of the West, we continue to make ourselves irrelevant.
The poll on the
front page is missing a fourth choice: that the coalition forces are
meeting their aims. By framing the question a certain way, you continue to
perpetrate the very lies that I mentioned in the previous paragraph, and further
dig the well in which we shall all drown.
Rashif Moni
Hanan
New Jersey
UN is
just a puppet in the hands of the US government; they use it when they want to.
Shame on the rulers of Muslim countries who allow this to happen in our
lands-our Muslim lands.
Amna Ali
London
That the reasons for war on Iraq and subsequent intentions of the so-called
'allies' are clear, I humbly propose that it is the time for countries like
Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Bangaldesh, Malaysia, Indonesia and perhaps
Turkish States like Azerbaijan, Kazakhisten and Uzbekistan to finally give up
their ' Western Style Pragmatism' and form comprehensive cooperation
treaties.
Sohail Mirza
Switzerland
In this situation of war, whole Muslim countries Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arab,
Pakistan, Syria, Urdan, Yaman, etc especially China and Russia should get united
and convene an emergency conference on this issue that what will they have to
take steps against US war in Iraq, because individually no country can do what
it wants.
If the group of Islamic countries will be united, assuredly we can do properly
& powerfully, what we will think and want.
Fahad Mahmood Lodhi
LAHORE, PAKISTAN
I salute to the honourable president of Iraq Saddam Hussain over his valour and
courage and his stand in war. It is a fact that he has done mistakes in past but
these mistakes can be pardoned as "to err is human".
If the international community or United Nation close its eyes on the massacre
of Iraqi people by America and still International Community support the US,
then why can't the Muslim Ummah forgive Saddam and stand by him? I believe that
United Nation has now no right to bear this name as "U.N.O"
Faiza Nishat
It would not be justified to say that the UN has lost its credibility, or the UN
has become irrelevant, weak and should be abolished. The UN still has a very
vital role to play.
Kalim Ilyas
Islamabad
I don't have any trust on UN so what can I say about its role.
Wake up Muslims; see what happens and where we are. Analyse yourself, your
activities
Media is supposed to be a weapon for countries against any thing. Just trying to
use this source and motivate peoples then see the result.
Nabeel Zubair
Karachi, Pakistan
UN had no credibility right from the beginning. The US unilateral declaration of
a
fictitious war against Iraq has questioned the UN authority and it's
future
role. Furthermore, the UN seems paralyzed, not even having the nerve to
condemn the US and ask for an immediate halt.
Credibility? Out of the question. It's only a pro-Zionist organization.
Uzma Shah
Toronto, Canada
UN is a dead organization. This organization was silent for a week,
while so-called allied forces carried out their attack in Iraq.
The coalition forces, particularly US High Command made a mistake in reading
Saddam Hussain and Iraqi people. They thought that like Afghanistan, people of
Iraq would come with flowers to well come them. Iraqis came with AK47 rifles to
greet USA and allies forces.
Also the Allied Forces
thought that they will subdue the Iraqi forces in no time and it was a blunder.
Without having an Air Cover, no navy, still Iraq is giving a hard time to the
allied Forces to prevail on the. And, if it continues like this then coming
hotter months of April through August will cook the Allied in desert oven.
The most important lesson in this war is that No Power, how powerful it may be,
can not subdue a force which is ready to sacrifice every thing it has. No one
can fight some one who is ready to give up his life; one can only fight that
person who wants to remain alive. We Pakistanis are hearing for a long time that
after Iraq will be Iran, Syria, North Korea, and then Pakistan.
If Pakistanis are ready to
sacrifice every thing in order to preserve their identity and freedom, then no
power-big or small-can even dare to cast an evil eye on Pakistan. Being a
nuclear power, we should have the capability to eliminate our enemies from the
surface of the earth.
Muhammad
Riyaz
Manassas, VA 20112
Unendorsed
by the UN, the unilateral US action on Iraq is a deplorable and cowardly act of
a super power to show its muscles to a weaker competitor, reflecting a lust for
totalitarianism.
Haider Mahmood
Saudi Arabian Airlines
Brussels, Belgium
American decision to attack Iraq rendered the United Nations worthless
and insignificance organization.
The UN has now no credibility at all, because any country can take same step
like America did and call it legitimate.
Shahzad
Aslam
Oradea, Romania
With this "war on Iraq" to start, the presence of UN after the
post-war scenario will be quite difficult to justify and answer mainly because
the scenes like this
will be continued to repeat by such Allies in the future as well.
Yes, it is true that no one can deny the importance of UN, which has been doing
a lot of welfare tasks for the mankind except ensuring peace in the world.
Therefore,
I would suggest UN role should be limited to welfare tasks only and all other
its departments be removed like "Security Council" from its agenda.
The world peace can be guaranteed only if each and every person on this earth
has enough courage and power to speak out and act against oppressor’s brutal
tasks,
otherwise every institution having peace as its agenda will be of no use.
Tahir Islam Nizami
Peshawar, Pakistan
The war has blown to pieces
the credibility, viability and impartiality of the UN. In all decency this
puppet organization should now cease to exist immediately.
UN has lost its credibility after US/UK attack on Iraq. There is no need of any
UNO because rich countries fee UN and they manipulate it.
It is high time for all
Muslim countries to quite UNO and makes their own union otherwise after Iraq it
might be turn of Pakistan.
Naseer
Khan
Canada
This is very clearly understood today that UN is an organization owned by those
who want weaker nations to serve them and not to venture questioning their
actions no matter what the nature of them is. UN is proved to be a useless
organization, which has badly failed to play a critical role in putting halt to
the on-going war in Iraq initiated by Pentagon having prior endorsement from the
UN.
FM Endrabi
Lahore
UN had lost its credibility much right from the beginning when it comes to
withstanding security and peace in the world.
The US unilateral declaration of a fictitious war against Iraq has questioned
the UN authority and it's future role.
Furthermore, the UN now seems paralyzed, much as having no nerve to condemn the
US and dare to bar the war against Iraq.
In core, it's only a pro-Zionist organization.
Uzma Shah
Toronto, Canada
I have a serious concern. Media is supposed to be a weapon for countries against
any thing. Why would you say US air base in Pakistan?
Sana
Pennsylvania, USA
United Nation as an organization is a total
farce. The UN is an American controlled reckless entity dictating the fragile
nations since it's establishment. It had no credibility as an impartial
international organization but rather considered an American-centered
enforcer.
The US talks about Iraqi defiance on UN resolutions, whereas the US itself has
desecrated the UN's credibility by launching the unilateral attack on Iraq. This
double standard and illegitimate action by the US has resulted in turmoil within
the United. The United Nation's integrity and existence is now much at stake,
since every nation might be considering taking concerned matters in their own
hands. It is high time the countries across the world reconsidered their
memberships in protest until the US is accounted for.
Malik Dawood,
Scarborough, ON
Canada
The UN is another ineffective, bureaucratic body created and controlled by the
United States. The fact that only fifteen countries out of the 200 or so have
final authority on the matters of international security and it is a great flaw
in this organization that Roosevelt and Truman created to have international
approval for American imperialist policies.
Economically stable countries such as Germany and Japan have no permanent say in
the Security Council, while countries with crumbling economies and poor human
rights records like China and Russia have been awarded veto power and final
jurisdiction. The UN has no authority whatsoever in international politics.
Either it supports the United States' actions, or the US ignores it and it does
nothing. Credibility? Yeah right!!!
Arsalan Rizvi,
Denver, USA
US attack on Iraq has not only undermined the credibility and authenticity of UN
but has also raised a big sense of insecurity among smaller states whose
interests could clash with US. WHAT IF US TOMORROW? UN is simply irrelevant, as
it always was but now its obvious.
This war has also given a clear lesson: never destroy your weapons.
Z Saadi
United Kingdom
Unsanctioned by the UN, the US-led assault in Iraq clearly tells that they (Jews
and Christians) want to wipe out Muslims around the world. Our holy book of
Quran says the same thing as: "Jews and Christians can never be the friends
of Muslims".
So all Muslims should get united and take all possible steps to steps against
this aggression and violent war against the Muslim nation and should not help
these countries in this war because maybe we might be the next target.
Waseem sheikh
Karachi, Pakistan
US has attacked Iraq without having any endorsement of the United Nations
Security Council. Today U.N. has been brushed aside by the United States
Government, just by one single stroke.
Secretary General of United Nations in protest should resign immediately. To restore the credibility of United Nations, it has now become the prime responsibility of its members to table a resolution in the next United Nations Security Council's meeting to revoke the permanent membership of United States from U.N.
SYED A. MATEEN
Karachi, Pakistan
War on Iraq should open the eyes of Muslim States and their "irresponsible
and ineffective" leaders with the exception of few. UN has become
irrelevant.
Zafar A. Bokhari
Chicago, USA
United Nations is dead, only pronounced now. It was always a kind of puppet.
Except doing the limited welfare efforts for children and health, politically it
was a hostage of the superpowers.
Sarwar Naqvi
Mississauga – Canada
The unilateral action taken by the USA and the UK to attack Iraq will
have far-reaching consequences. Firstly, it will definitely pave the way for the
aggressing nations to terrorize and attack the others.
As long as the USA remains the super power and the World’s policeman, the
situation shall not change. In fact it will go from bad to worse.
N.M.
ABBASI
LUSAKA/ZAMBIA
US-led attack on Iraq has starkly ruined the credibility of United Nations. No
country would now seek UN's approval for carrying out hostile activities
against rival country. UN should instantly shut down its operation after
facing US violation of its regulations, as it has lost it's conscience and
values.
This attack should be taken as lesson by Muslim countries to sit
together and find a solution for their nations solidarity and integrity in the
long term.
Irfan Hashim
Pakistan
USA's unilateral action against the wishes and resolutions of the UN has
virtually caused the UNO to lose its credibility.
In other words, the existence of the UNO is now questionable, if it doesn't bring the offender(s) to justice.
S.A.Rizvi
Lahore
The attack on Iraq by the US is unjustifiable and illegitimate and flagrant
violation of UN’s resolutions. This attack is a crime against humanity as
well.
If UN does not take any action or does not stop
this attack, then there will be dire effect upon its power and existence and one
would doubt its being.
Ehsan K.Niazi
Karachi
After the failure of United Nation in the peaceful resolution of Iraq issue, the
international credibility of the United Nation UN is similar to the value of
League of Nations after the world war.
This failure has made it clear to the international community that now their is
no power greater then the power of USA.
Mohammad Asif Bashir
Sahiwal, Pakistan