OPINION:
“Diplomacy must prevail” — said U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a New York assemblage of the Security Council, in the wake of Israel’s attack on Iran and America’s subsequent bombing of its nuclear sites.
And like that, the United Nations once again shows why it’s utterly inconsequential on matters of U.S. foreign policy.
Just as Israel could not feasibly be expected to conduct successful diplomatic talks with a group of people — Hamas — whose stated goal was to eradicate the Jewish people from the face of the earth, this White House cannot be expected to sway Iran’s “death to America” radicals to lay down arms, peaceably discuss terms of nonnuclear weaponry development and behave as civil citizens. The United Nations, once again, fails to call out evil for what it is: unrelenting evil. The United Nations, once again, expects the peacekeepers to suffer evil in silence and worse, without a fight.
Iran has attacked Americans.
Iran has attacked Israel.
Iran has funded the terror groups that have murdered, tortured, injured and abducted innocents.
Iran is the leading sponsor of anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-West terrorism — and to this day, calls for its partners in terror deeds to bring to fruition a world where the lawlessness of Shariah law reigns, and women are like dogs, and individual rights do not exist, and liberty is only as defined as the mullahs define. LGBTQs hang in this world, by the way. They do not gather in the streets for their public pride parades. They do not assemble in libraries for their drag queen story hours.
But this is the enemy that the United Nations wants America to talk with; to discuss with; to come to peaceful, diplomatic terms with; to treat as a sane and sensible moral equal.
“The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council,” the United Nations wrote, “that the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites by the United States marks a ‘perilous turn,’ warning that the region cannot endure yet another ‘cycle of destruction.’ Antonio Guterres said there must be an immediate ceasefire and return to ‘serious, sustained negotiations.’”
The truer “perilous turn” from peace occurred on Oct. 7, 2023, when the Iran-funded murderers of Hamas struck at Israel.
That aside, it’s simply common sense that diplomacy during war only works when all the pertinent players seek diplomatic ends. Israel does. America does. Iran does not. Iran only seeks the destruction of Israel and America — and they state as much, frequently, loudly, proudly.
There just doesn’t seem to be much wiggle room there to strike a deal that satisfies all the parties. To deny that reality is to embolden the evil.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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