Inside the Asylum
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Inside the Asylum is a 2004 book by former U.S. undersecretary of defense Jed Babbin
which accuses the United Nations
(and what he calls "Old Europe
") of anti-Americanism
.
Babbin accuses the UN of having links to terrorist organizations and selling its moral legitimacy for oil and enriching itself at the expense of the Iraqi people, while undermining American pressure on Saddam Hussein
Babbin suggests that the US should leave the UN and focus on forming alliances with countries, which he considers, are really for freedom and democracy.
Babbin accuses Kofi Annan
and his “wasteful bureaucracy of UN employees” of acting not in the name of the UN Charter to promote world peace and global security, and instead channeling dirty money, supporting terrorist causes, and using the Security Council to attempt to shackle sovereign US authority in its own international affairs, and thereby illegitimately expanding their own vastly overreaching political power.
Jed Babbin
Jed Babbin is a former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense who served during the first Bush administration in the United States, and is the author of the political book Inside the Asylum as well as Showdown and In the Words of Our Enemies....
which accuses the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
(and what he calls "Old Europe
Old Europe
Old Europe is a term that was first used by then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in January 2003 to refer to European countries that did not support the 2003 invasion of Iraq, specifically France and Germany...
") of anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism
The term Anti-Americanism, or Anti-American Sentiment, refers to broad opposition or hostility to the people, policies, culture or government of the United States...
.
Babbin accuses the UN of having links to terrorist organizations and selling its moral legitimacy for oil and enriching itself at the expense of the Iraqi people, while undermining American pressure on Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
Babbin suggests that the US should leave the UN and focus on forming alliances with countries, which he considers, are really for freedom and democracy.
Babbin accuses Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
and his “wasteful bureaucracy of UN employees” of acting not in the name of the UN Charter to promote world peace and global security, and instead channeling dirty money, supporting terrorist causes, and using the Security Council to attempt to shackle sovereign US authority in its own international affairs, and thereby illegitimately expanding their own vastly overreaching political power.
See also
- Oil for Food program
- World peaceWorld peaceWorld Peace is an ideal of freedom, peace, and happiness among and within all nations and/or people. World peace is an idea of planetary non-violence by which nations willingly cooperate, either voluntarily or by virtue of a system of governance that prevents warfare. The term is sometimes used to...
- UN Charter
- UN Security Council
- TerrorismTerrorismTerrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
, FreedomFreedom (political)Political freedom is a central philosophy in Western history and political thought, and one of the most important features of democratic societies...
, DemocracyDemocracyDemocracy is generally defined as a form of government in which all adult citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. Ideally, this includes equal participation in the proposal, development and passage of legislation into law... - SovereigntySovereigntySovereignty is the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a geographic area, such as a territory. It can be found in a power to rule and make law that rests on a political fact for which no purely legal explanation can be provided...