Tell that to the genocide victims in Rawanda, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Bangladesh or to the exporters of terrorism in Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, North Korea, the Sudan and Cuba. But this will not stop bloated bureaucrats in the United Nations beating their chests and toasting each other with the finest imported champagne over the 60th anniversary of their declaration.sponsibility of the international community is to protect those in any nation whose government cannot or will not protect them from widespread violations of their human rights and threats to their very survival’. In this regard the United Nations has little to celebrate after 60 years of churning out gratuitous words from their headquarters in New York.

According to one international commentator, Eben Klapan, ‘the re

After 60 years the world is more unstable than ever before. It is no coincidence that the nations with the worst records of human rights are either Islamic states or dictatorships. But it is politically incorrect to say that so please forget I mentioned it in this article.

Left wing conspirators among us would prefer to blame the United States and other capitalist nations (who actually fund UN international junkets) for the ills of the world rather than accept the fact that radical Islamic fundamentalism and misguided political ideology is a root cause of the violation of human rights.

President Robert Mugabe is a stark symbol of the failure of the United Nations to ‘question the tragic excesses of human wrongs and ensure all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’. They have taken the role of impotent observer as his people suffer unimaginable deprivations under his despotic rule.

Last week the world was shocked as the exporters of international Islamic terrorism set out to slaughter innocent civilians in Mumbai. Terrorism now impinges of the human rights of everybody in the free world. Islamic terrorists disregard every convention of war ever established by any international agency.

United Nations agencies would be better advised to keep the corks in their champagne bottles and try to put some meaning into the voluminous ‘feel-good’ statements they have produced from their international taxpayer funded headquarters in New York. A review of the worlds trouble-spots indicates they have nothing to celebrate.

Betrayal is something soldiers learn about early in their training. Betrayal of a mate on the field of battle is cowardice. The penalty is excommunication. Betrayal of your country in war is treason. The penalty was death with dishonour.

The sacrifices made by our soldiers on the fields of battle over generations are well known and commemorated on Anzac Day each year.

Sadly these sacrifices have not always been shared by those on our home-front. Unions have refused to load ships for our troops; city folk have refused to give up leisure activities to support our war effort; and protestors threw red paint at our returning Vietnam Veterans.

9/11 changed the nature of warfare with Islamic extremists declaring a Jihad against everything we value – our freedom, our democracy and our way of life. The events of that fateful day will reverberate for generations to come. The Jihad being waged against Western civilization has no respect for human life. Our men, women and children, are infidels in the eyes of the Jihadists and can be beaten up, blown up, raped, exploited and executed at will.

Defending us in this insidious war against terrorism is a band of highly trained Australian soldiers risking their lives on a daily basis in two of the most dangerous places on earth – Iraq and Afghanistan. They leave their families without fanfare and return home from their tour of duty unnoticed and unsung.

It must gall them to read of the transformation of David Hicks, or Abu Muslim al Austraili as he was known to Osama Bin Laden, from alleged terrorist to celebrity prisoner.

The cries for justice from the chattering classes ring hollow with our soldiers who have witnessed the fanatical savagery of the Jihadists. Many trained in the same hate filled terror camps as Hicks.

Highly paid spin doctors have cleverly morphed the image of David Hicks from traitor to victim. The chattering classes, desperate to vent their spleens against John Howard and give some sort of relevance to their own lives, have embraced the cause celebre of Hicks in the name of ‘justice’.

They should be grateful that our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting for their right to do just that.