Why does the Pope hate America?

What an unserious defeatist Chamberlain.

Pope Benedict XVI began his three-day visit to New York City with a 29-minute speech to the United Nations, where he called for global cooperation on matters of international security and offered a vigorous defense of individual conscience.

The pope used his speech — delivered from 11:20 to 11:49 a.m., the first half in French, and the second half in English — to call for global cooperation and to argue against unilateral action, saying, “We are witnessing the obvious paradox of a multilateral consensus that continues to be in crisis because it is still subordinated to the decisions of a small number, while the world’s problems require from the international community that it act on a common basis.”

Those remarks could be read as an implicit criticism of the United States, though the pope did not mention specifically the conflict in Iraq, which he has publicly questioned several times since he was invested in 2005.

The pope emphasized that he was not ruling out any use of armed intervention to protect human rights, but said such action should arise from global consensus:

The action of the international community and of its institutions, provided that it respects the principles the underlie international order, should never be interpreted as an unwarranted imposition or a limitation of sovereignty. On the contrary, it is indifference or failure to intervene that do the real damage. What is needed is a deeper search for ways of pre-empting and managing conflicts by exploring every possible diplomatic avenue, and giving attention and encouragement to even the faintest sign of dialogue or desire for reconciliation.

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