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Thursday, May 19, 2005
"You always had to clean up the mess after him"
Peter Foster has an interesting piece in the Financial Post "The Prince of Power" about Maurice Strong and "global salvationism." Global salvationism is a term used by David Henderson, former chief economist for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, in his book, The Role of Business in the Modern World. On global salvationism Foster writes:
The focus of this global master-plan is the bland but subversive notion of "sustainable development," that without extensive UN-administered government controls the world is going to Hades in a handbasket, due to man-made global warming, species extinction, resource depletion, pandemics, obesity. You name it.
...what Mr. Henderson's plot lacks is a central character. Whom should it be? None other than Canada's own Maurice Strong, the world's best-connected doomster and inveterate promoter of a more powerful UN...
On Strong, Foster continues:
Mr. Strong has recently been in the news in connection with the oil-for-food scandal and for having employed his stepdaughter, against the rules, in a UN position. It seems extremely unlikely that Mr. Strong will be found to have been involved with illicit Iraqi oil, despite his business dealings with alleged Korean Saddamite Tongsun Park. There is a widespread misconception among those aware -- and suspicious -- of Mr. Strong that his public-service persona is somehow a cover for making money. Quite the reverse. Mr. Strong's top priority has always been his self-professed socialist political agenda.
I shouldn't have to point out that it is only Mr. Foster's guess that "it seems extremely unlikely that Mr. Strong will be found to have been involved with illicit Iraqi oil." It's not illicit Iraqi oil that has tangled up Strong anyway, but the suggestion that Park--not Strong--was using illicit oil-for-food money to purchase Strong's influence at the United Nations to get sanctions on Saddam's regime lifted. I don't know what position, if any, Strong ever took on the UN sanctions against Iraq.
I am inclined to believe Foster on Strong's motivation, however, simply because Foster has been writing about the man for a long period of time; that is, if this is the same Peter Foster (correct me if I'm wrong) who wrote Blue-Eyed Sheiks back in 1979. The book contains this gem:
"A former colleague of Strong at Dome remembers him as a good wheeler-dealer, 'but you always had to clean up the mess after him.'"
Strong resigned as the UN Special Envoy to North Korea a month ago while the allegations against Park are being investigated. Whatever will happen to North Korea without Maurice and the UN?
From today's news: US held direct meeting with N. Korea: White House.
Posted by Kevin Steel on May 19, 2005 in International Affairs | Permalink
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Amen to that Kevin, just uttered the same words to my mother of whom is in agreement.
I had figured that Chuck Cadman had an axe to grind. Just did not know with who. It does seem strang that the reason for which Cadman got into politics was the loss, tragic loss of his son. To strenghten criminal Law and by voting with the Liberals he has completely undermined his own principals for being there in Ottawa. What is with that to align yourself with this level of corruption? Why don't people get it in this country? Is this entire country suffering from ADD? Have we forgotten what the Liberal party has been up to? I am astonished and completely disgusted.
Posted by: ddbooski | 2005-05-19 6:19:57 PM
It is the same Peter Foster. Dead on as usual.
Posted by: Publius | 2005-05-19 7:19:15 PM
Peter Foster, Terence Corcoran, William Watson, Paul Kedrosky and the whole FP editorial crew provide some of the best commentary available on free markets, capitalism and democracy as well as on Kyoto and other junk science subjects. They often make for much better reading than the rest of the 'Post'.
They deserve a lot more attention than they seem to get in the right-wing blogosphere.
Posted by: JR | 2005-05-19 8:51:06 PM
"The whole FP editorial crew provide some of the best commentary available . . . They deserve a lot more attention than they seem to get . . . "
That's because Diane Francis is an embarrisingly shrill US-hating Yankee Red Tory.
Posted by: Paul's Mafia | 2005-05-20 2:50:45 AM
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