[July 18, 2021] Years ago, while deployed to Iraq, I provided some “common sense advice” to the U.S. Embassy staff in the old Green Zone, Baghdad. After a couple of days, I witnessed far too much dysfunction and laziness. I was never fond of the Department of State and maybe never will be. Now, I hear that the Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a bad decision that will haunt America for a long time.
The White House recently announced that Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave an invitation to UN experts” to investigate “the scourge of racism, racial discrimination, and xenophobia” in the United States. I can only assume, given the WH highlighting this invitation, that it is at the direction of President Biden. That’s who Blinken works for every day, at the “pleasure of the President.”
The problem here is that the UN is a thoroughly anti-American organization. This anti-democratic drift by the UN is not new. Over the past 50 years or so, it’s no longer interested in its original mission to prevent war. In that, it has failed. I wrote about this problem years ago in my Army War College thesis (see article here).
Sadly, the UN has an unfortunate history of corruption, incompetence, and bureaucratic inertia.1 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the UN “a disgrace” and “a moral farce.” He also called the UN Human Rights Council a “joke” and UNESCO a “circus.”2 These are the same clowns that will investigate racism in America.
Some of the worst abusers of human rights in the history of the world, like China, Iran, and Russia, will hype this investigation as “evidence” of America’s evil to humanity. All while their dictators laugh about our self-destructive behavior.
This action by Antony Blinken and his boss, Joe Biden, will do no good. Nothing positive will come of it. It is a bad decision, at the wrong time, by the wrong organization, hunting for snipes in the forest that don’t exist, to an end that is fuzzy and very much harmful. It’s a huge loser for the American people.
One good thing will come of this. We can study this stunningly stupid decision and learn what not to do as a leader.
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Gives dumb people a bad name.
Ha Ha, so true.
A senior Chinese diplomat responded by touting the new U.N. report on racism and pointed to historic racial discrimination in the U.S. to deflect the criticism of China’s treatment of the Uyghurs. Ya think? 😊 What moron put Blinken in charge? Was he able to count to 3 without stopping or what?
…. and I thought my lazy dog was stupid. Now he has a competitor for bottom place in the race for ignorance. Antony Blinken – what kind of name is that? His ancestors are rolling in their graves.
If you walk this earth and don’t see this as one of the dumbest decisions ever, then you need your head examined. The only people for this just want to divide America. If you are an American, I would hope you actually go and live in China, Russia, or Cuba for while and see what the real world is about. And it ain’t good.
The total stupidity of Joe Biden and K Harris once again raises it’s ugly head.
Thank you Gen. Satterfield for writing about this. I saw it earlier in news reports and by jaw hit the floor.
That invitation irritated Sen. Marco Rubio, coming as it does as the regime in Cuba is trying to force an end to an unexpected outbreak of protests against the island’s communist authorities. “Instead of asking the [UN] to come here & tell us how ‘racist’ America is, why don’t you ask them to go to #Cuba where an evil socialist regime storms into peoples homes, beats the crap out of them & then drags them away?” the Florida Republican wrote in a Twitter message addressed to Blinken.
Blinken is the kind of bureaucrat you don’t want on your side.
I’ve witnessed some dumb decisions by political leaders in the past but this one takes the cake. Purposefully shooting yourself in the foot is not a good idea and that is what Antony Blinken has done to us. Who hired this guy anyway? Oh, yeah! Even the anti-American MSN can see this for what it is.
“Antony Blinken wants the UN to embarrass the US”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/antony-blinken-wants-the-un-to-embarrass-the-us/ar-AAM9I1G
Serves no good purpose. 👎
Here is the lead in sentence and it tells a lot.
“The United Nations is a grotesque bureaucracy that peddles the propaganda of the world’s worst authoritarians. So naturally, Secretary of State Antony Blinken wants it to judge the U.S.”
Thanks Fred. Yes, but when you make an obviously bad decision, then what do you do. Just double down on it like Blinken. THis guy probably got beat up as a kid because he was so stupid.
WHO HIRED BLINKEN? …. trending now on Twitter.
This guy, what kind of idiot would do that? Inviting someone who hates you to “investigate” you! Monumental ignorance or just plain evil. Nutjob Blinken will go down in history as one of the worst Sec of States ever to walk the halls of humanity.
Doug, you stomped his butt. Well, that was just too easy. Hey, thanks.
Yep, and we actually pay this guy money from our taxes. If you are going to make a stupid decision, at least don’t let the cat out of the bag. Let it simmer underneath the news media. But (p)resident Biden wants everyone to know about it. Am I crazy and living in a parallel universe? Or are they crazy?
The answer to that question, Yusaf, is obvious. Glad to have you on the side of reality.