The Trouble With the Board of Peace

16 Muslim countries, 10 non-Muslim countries and $10 billion in taxpayer money.

Trump speaks at the Board of Peace. Source: Wikipedia Commons

The problem with the United Nations wasn’t its blue color scheme: it was that globalism doesn’t work. The UN rebooted the already useless League of Nations and eventually expanded its membership to every third world dictatorship until the roster was so full of Marxist and Muslim countries (and Islamomarxist ones) that it had become an anti-American organization.

President Trump is right to want to get away from the UN, but the best way to do that is by recognizing the globalist fallacies of building international organizations.

The first fallacy is that no global organization can do more for us than we can do for ourselves.

Every effort to recruit other countries into some global group ends up costing us more than we ever get from it. The initial $10 billion that President Trump has promised to the Board of Peace is already ten times more than members of the new group are expected to contribute. It’s a better ratio than our current spending contributions to the UN, but it’s better than going it alone.

What is the Board of Peace going to do that’s worth $10 billion to us?

“When you look at that compared to the cost of war, that’s two weeks of fighting, it’s a very small number. It sounds like a lot, but it’s a very small number,” President Trump argued.

President Trump deserves plenty of credit for wanting to bring peace, but international spending doesn’t actually buy our way out of wars. Just like social services spending doesn’t stop crime. Liberal fallacies applied to either domestic or international policy don’t hold up because they ignore the realities of human nature and the existence of evil. You just can’t buy evil off.

$10 billion is cheap in warfighting terms. But the whole reason we had one world war and then one cold war (that was even more expensive) is that international organizations don’t stop wars. The League of Nations failed to stop WWII. The UN has stopped nothing. At its most useful, in its early days, the UN coordinated military action, at its most useless, it tried to bring peace.

That takes us to our second fallacy: you don’t need an international organization to have peace.

Peace is pretty easy. International mediation of territorial or civil conflicts long predates globalism. The American Revolution was settled with the Treaty of Paris. The War of 1812 was settled with the Treaty of Ghent. Czar Alexander I had offered to mediate. King William I of the Netherlands ended up trying to arbitrate some of the leftover disputes from the treaties in 1831. Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize by helping to settle the Russo-Japanese War.

Wars have been negotiated directly and arbitrated by various heads of state and diplomats long before globalists began pretending that internationalism had some magical way to stop them.

The problem is that most significant contemporary wars can’t be arbitrated away. What most of the above wars had in common is that they were not religious or ethnic, and both parties grew tired of fighting them once they realized that there was no grand victory waiting for them.

President Trump tried stopping the Russia-Ukraine war only to realize that you can’t stop a war whose participants want to keep fighting. And Gaza, the immediate trigger for the Board of Peace, is an Islamic war and can’t be stopped by any amount of international coordination.

How do you stop a war commanded by Allah and by the scripture and beliefs of Islam?

That takes us to the third fallacy of globalism. The UN was not entirely useless when it was made up of western and advanced nations who shared key values with us. Once the Communists and then Islamists took it over, it just became an international terror network.

The current membership of the Board of Peace consists of 16 Muslim countries and 10 non-Muslim countries. Only 5 of the members are western nations. And that’s being generous. Apart from a handful of countries like Argentina and Hungary, we have little in common with most of them. The list includes at least one Communist country, numerous dictatorships and a number of state sponsors of Islamic terrorism: including Qatar, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

These are poor choices for partners in any kind of international enterprise because we share no values with them, we have no common ancestry, no common interests or share anything with them besides a planet and bodies consisting of two arms, two legs and assorted other parts.

Three of the Muslim countries in the Board of Peace, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan, were involved in 9/11 and in Islamic terrorism responsible for killing Americans around the world. There’s little reason to believe that they’re our friends now after lying to us and manipulating while aiding the terrorists killing us, including Osama bin Laden, for the last few generations.

The only reason they’re interested in getting involved in the Board of Peace is to be able to weigh in on the Hamas side in Gaza. Every time that we or the UN have gotten involved in sending troops or working to bring peace to the Muslim world, Islamic terrorists have come out on top. And that’s in part because we had ‘partners’ like these involved in the process.

Of all our various nation building enterprises, trying to rebuild Gaza in partnership with Hamas state sponsors like Qatar and Turkey is the most obvious disaster that anyone can see coming.

We should not be spending a penny to rebuild an Islamic terror state that’s going to be a base for another war in a matter of years, or possibly weeks or months, let alone spending $1 billion.

And yet reports are that we’ve already allotted $1 billion in taxpayer money to rebuild Gaza.

There are lots of places in America that could use rebuilding, whose people hate us less and are far less likely to try and kill us. Perhaps not in Minneapolis. But certainly not in Gaza.

There are things that a Board of Peace could be useful for coordinating, like cooperation on various treaties between the United States and other countries, but it won’t fix Jihad.

Only foolish liberals think that the problems in Gaza are caused by anything we can provide. They’re part of a religious war being fought by Islamic movements against the rest of the world. That war has been going on in one form or another for over 1,000 years. It isn’t going away now.

Setting up a Board of Peace full of Muslim countries shows a basic ignorance about Islam.

President Trump’s desire to avoid wars and make the world more peaceful is laudable, but optimism and good intentions aren’t enough to change the world. If it were, the League of Nations and the United Nations would have worked. Resolving a conflict without understanding the motivations of the players is at best a band-aid and at worst a dangerously doomed cause.

No international organization is going to alter the underlying religious beliefs driving conflicts between Islam and Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and other non-Muslim nations.

A proper Board of Peace would bring together those nations that want to live in peace to hold the line against the Jihad terrorizing the world, but a Board of Peace dominated by a religion of war cannot help but be exploited by the ‘religion of peace’ to aid Islamic terrorists in their war.