Nations Are Not Morally Equal |
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| Media Link - Wall Street Journal | ||||
| Tuesday, 18 September 2001 00:00 | ||||
The September 11 attacks on the U.S. took place on what was to be the United Nations International Day of Peace. This fact was noted by television networks as a "bitter irony." Actually, it's quite appropriate. For years, the U.N. has propagated the idea that all nations are morally equal. Terrorist nations such as Syria, Iran and Afghanistan and totalitarian nations such as Cuba and China are placed on the same moral footing -- given an equal vote -- as the United States, Britain, and the rest of Western Europe. Putting evil countries and rational, just countries on the same moral plane can only benefit the evil countries. The nations that respect individual rights have nothing to gain from this pretense, while the evil ones do. What you saw happen Tuesday is the inevitable result of such a mentality, coming to a climax in a horrifically grotesque form. It's certainly no accident that the terrorist hijackers took aim at the World Trade Center, rather than the U.N. The U.N. made them comfortable, while the World Trade Center -- the international symbol of capitalism, freedom, and material prosperity -- angered them to the point of madness. According to the prevailing moral premise of the U.N., one would have every right to reason that Afghanistan and its sympathetic terrorist nations are no better or worse than the United States. Of course, few would argue this point right now. But if you accepted this premise before -- and the great majority of the world, including all of our own political administrations, most certainly did - - then why not accept it now? The failure to resolve this contradiction could cost untold thousands more lives in the battles yet to come in this war. Let's hope that out of the ruins of this disaster we can forever discard the idea that all nations are morally equal. So long as we engage in such a charade, we endanger ourselves immeasurably and make the world safer for terrorism and hatred.
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