So who’s going to step up?

Since January 20th, 2001, I’ve heard and read countless times that the US is misusing it’s superpower status. Even before the attacks on us on September 11th that year, the knuckleheads at ANSWER and the various communist organizations were planning a protest against US imperialism and racist policy in Washington DC in October – luckily, for them, the President gave them a war against the Taliban so they didn’t look quite so silly.

We all remember watching NATO, the EU and the UN twiddle their thumbs while Bosnia was torn to pieces by the Serbs in the 90s. The same group wrung their gnarled Old Europe hands over the attempted genocide in Kosovo and stood by impotently while Rwanda was drenched in the blood of millions macheted in droves.

After Saddam Hussein thumbed his nose at UN and inspectors, fired at aircraft enforcing UN-mandated no-fly zones and paid off UN officials and their families to sidestep sanctions for 12 years, the US went ahead and decapitated the government with the tacit approval of UN resolutions when it was apparent that the UN couldn’t assemble the intestinal fortitude among its members to take action or make a decision – to the cries of imperialism. Critics charged that we can’t be the world’s police force. The US can’t just unilaterally enforce policy.

OK, fine. Whatever.

So we’re busy doing Old Europe’s dirty work killing terrorists by the thousands every month or so – it’s pretty much a full time job. So who’s going to step up to take care of the rest of the world’s business?

The Gateway Pundit points out that Zimbabweans are wrestling with 4530% inflation – people are starving to death while communist icon President Robert Mugabe fiddles. Folks in Darfur have been dying in herds for more than ten years while Christian missionaries warned the world – and there’s no solution in sight, but at least Hollywood has noticed it now. Kosovo is still in limbo – and the Russians are blocking any meaningful solution because of their nationaistic pride – something frowned upon when it’s the US being nationalistic or prideful.

The Bloodthirsty Liberal reports that the UN is busy compromising amongst themselves for purely bureaucratic reasons using human lives as barter while UN inspectors, who are unable, according to The Redhunter, to get Iran to stop their nuclear activities without the US apparently, are still looking for WMDs in Iraq.

Hugo Chavez has negotiated the major oil companies right out of the market in Venezuela (while the LATimes fauns over his socialism) while contemplating buying some Russian subs – can the economc collapse of Venezuela be far away? Gateway Pundit also reports that thousands of Bolivians protested Chavez’ “Mini-Me” Evo Morales today. There’s so much more happening in South America and Kate at A Colombo-Americana’s Perspective does a much better job than I could summarizing it all.

These are problems that affect real people – thousands, if not millions, are suffering everyday while bureaucrats seek compromises instead of acting as if real lives hang in the balance. Every day is agony – while fat cat politicians form commissions and discuss solutions while never accomplishing anything.

Ronald Reagan once rhetorically asked, in reference to fighting the Evil Empire, “If not us, who? If not now, when?” I think it’s pretty much time for the rest of the world to put up or shut up and ask that question of themselves. If they don’t want the US to police the world, they’d better get off of their ample behinds and do something before they let all of this stuff get out of hand – again – so that the only solution is our unilateral application of military power.

Category: Foreign Policy, Historical, Hugo Chavez, Politics