We Should Listen to Our Mothers

Mine sent me this column, which puts the killing of Rantisi neatly in its true moral context:
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“The world” has never cared about evils inflicted on human beings. The Communist genocides meant nothing to humanity. The Holocaust meant nothing. With almost no exception, the mass atrocities since World War II have likewise absorbed humanity less than the Olympics or the Miss World Contest. I have contempt for the United Nations. It is one of the great obstacles to goodness and decency on this planet. Its moral record � outside of a few specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization � is almost entirely supportive of evil and condemnatory of good.
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What actually unites the United Nations? Nothing, because unity implies commonality, which implies common values, which implies value judgments, which leads to excluding people and possibly even taking action. Until some portion of “the world” unites around a set of basic values, the law of the jungle will prevail, the governed will not be asked for their consent, force will continue to hijack legitimacy, and life of a terrorist will continue to mean more to “the world” than the lives of hundreds of murdered infants, thousands of gulag inmates, millions of innocent dead, and billions in stolen dollars.