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UN Mark Malloch Brown: "Calling Hezbo Terrorist is Unhelpful"
2006-08-03
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown may want to stick to reforming his own office and stop criticizing member states, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.

Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.

“Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda...”
"It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.

"I have to say that some of his comments, as reported today, are really misguided and misplaced. And we are seeing a troubling pattern of a high official of the U.N. who seems to be making it his business to criticize member states and, frankly, with misplaced and misguided criticisms. So I really don't understand the origin of these comments," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

This is not the first time Malloch Brown has made remarks suggesting his dislike for the U.S. government or its policies. Last month, he said the United States relies on the United Nations as a diplomatic tool but doesn't defend it in "Middle America," which remains largely ignorant while it criticizes the world body.

Posted by:Captain America

#27  Make it an OPTIONAL extra for americans to fund the U.N.

I like that idea! At the bottom of your 1040 you could have a box you can check that diverts $0.01 of your taxes to the UN if you think the organization is of value to the world. Perfect!
Posted by: gorb   2006-08-03 18:00  

#26  The rampant consumption of oxygen and resultant emission of carbon dioxide by Malloch Brown is very unhelpful.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-03 15:13  

#25  It's unhelpful to have Multiculturalism in its present corrupted form promoted by a self-serving PC superstition called the UN.
Posted by: Duh!   2006-08-03 14:59  

#24  Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.

Last month, he said the United States relies on the United Nations as a diplomatic tool but doesn't defend it in "Middle America,"

Well, jeez, I wonder how come they don't do that?
Posted by: tu3031   2006-08-03 14:09  

#23  Make it an OPTIONAL extra for americans to fund the U.N.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2006-08-03 14:04  

#22  Its long past time that we throw that collection of terror supporters operating under the name "United Nations" out of OUR country. Malloch Brown is a piece of shit and should never be allowed to enter the US again.
Posted by: Crusader   2006-08-03 13:31  

#21  Refusing to call a spade a spade is unhelfpul too, if you want my opinion.
Posted by: WhitecollarRedneck   2006-08-03 12:45  

#20  Well, I'd rather call 'em "extinct", but that's probably not helpful either.
Posted by: mojo   2006-08-03 12:02  

#19  What would be helpful, Brown, is eliminating you and your worthless discourse from all further conversations.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-08-03 11:47  

#18  If Kofi, the rogue states on the "Human Rights" commission, Oil for Food, failure in Darfur and a hundred other places, incompetence, overt espionage, scams and radical leftism wasn't enough to get the US out of the UN, mabe this piece of shit will provide some impetus.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-03 11:03  

#17  Citizen Joe BA: "Calling Mark Malloch Brown a human is unhelpful"
Posted by: BA   2006-08-03 10:23  

#16  The world would be a helpful place without the 'un'. The UN is UNhelpful.
Posted by: Shong Sheager8147   2006-08-03 09:57  

#15  Darth, nah, just restrict them to two star restaurants and being driven around in five year old Chevy Cavaliers. They'll haul ass to the next flight out of NY so fast it will make your head spin.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie   2006-08-03 09:36  

#14  Having Hezspurta hide amongst the civilian population is unhelpful to us killing them too, ya know.

Mook.

I take back what I said about throwing the UN out. They need lined up against the wall of their own building and shot.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-08-03 09:25  

#13  Indeed, the UN needs to have an extensive debate on this issue -- before there's any discussion of ceasefire; followed by several weeks' review of the relative merits of using round versus square tables for peace talks.
Posted by: regular joe   2006-08-03 09:09  

#12  Sure Mark, the 31st would be fine. Be careful about using the term "strongly worded", however.
Posted by: Kofi "Ponce-Ultra" Annan   2006-08-03 09:02  

#11  Well, of course they're not terrorists. I mean, good grief, we don't even have a "definition" of terrorism. Whad'ya expect from us...more strongly worded letters? I've gotta go now and call for a special session (in Turks/Barbados, of course) for us to discuss these important issues....Kofi, are you available, say August 31?
Posted by: Mark Malloch Brown   2006-08-03 08:48  

#10  So Brown, when is a dumbass a dumbass?
Posted by: Whaling Unomoger7693   2006-08-03 07:19  

#9  Yes they are, D *** it, ergo no they aren't > you know, why Saint Bill wants the Dems to be on all sides = no sides of the issues. the way the Founding Fathers were and intended. JOhn Wayne = Jimmy Carter, and don't you America = Amerikans, despicable Fascist Nazi = well-meaning Half-A-Communist, etc. ever forget it.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-08-03 03:09  

#8  ponce, n: someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man]

Malloch the Moron prefers to be called a "middle man".
Posted by: gorb   2006-08-03 02:23  

#7  This ponce gets free rent from the turd that is likely behind 76 dollar a barrel oil in a attempt to tank our ecomomy like he has done to many other nations. That is all one need know about this ponce.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2006-08-03 02:07  

#6  OK, Malloch the Moron, what exactly do you call an organization that intentionally fires Katyushas from behind civilians, goes to war wearing civilian clothes, commits war crimes left and right including firing undirected weapons into civilian areas 100 times a day, threatens to destroy the legitimate government just as soon as it is finished with the Israelis, hides its equipment and personnel in religious structures and hospitals, uses ambulances as diversions and taxis, stages "massacres" and other news "events", tightly controls and manipulates media coverage of everything, uses UN observation posts for cover, hoodwinks the UN whenever they wish, won't disclose its alliances, uses suicide bombers, and has a charter that threatens Israel with something that smells a lot like genocide?

And what would an organization have to do to be labeled terrorist?
Posted by: gorb   2006-08-03 01:44  

#5  Brilliant, 11A5S! I wuz wondering about that nuance thingy for some time and I think you've nailed it!
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-08-03 01:36  

#4  I'm not going to bother reading the text of Moloch's speech, but from the short excerpt quoted here it seems as if he is trying to say

P1: Hezbollah uses terrorist tactics.
P2: It is not part of Al Qaeda.
∴ It is not an international terrorist organization.

That must be that nuance stuff that all of those really smart European elites keep telling us about because it sure as hell ain't logic.
Posted by: 11A5S   2006-08-03 01:07  

#3  Can we leave the U.N. now? please.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-08-03 00:20  

#2  I'm thinking about getting a wooden baseball bat and burn the word 'CLUE' into the side and mailing it to Bolton's office -- so he can take it to meeting with these self-important PC clowns.

But that's just a thought.....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2006-08-03 00:19  

#1  And calling nazis criminals was unhelpful too.

That's why the UN has waited 60 years to organize its first ceremony dedicated to the Jews exterminated by the nazis.

Maybe, in 60 years, will the UN declare the Hezbollah a terrorsit organization.
Posted by: leroidavid   2006-08-03 00:12  

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