Annan Wants Treaty Outlawing Terrorism

Thanks to Chrenkoff for the link. The Master of the Obvious, Kofi Annan, called for a world treaty on terrorism today at an international terrorism conference in Spain.

"The right to resist occupation … cannot include the right to deliberately kill or maim civilians," Annan told the conference on democracy, terrorism and security. The United Nations, he said, must proclaim "loud and clear that terrorism can never be accepted or justified in any cause whatsoever."

Thanks for clearing that up, Kofi. Unfortunately, the UN still has not agreed that suicide bombers who kill innocent civilians in Israel qualifies...but then again, they're Israelis.

Currently, the UN has 12 treaties on terrorism, most of which still don't agree on what the term terrorism means. As Chrenkoff points out, "Good luck to the UN with its 13th (lucky number?) international convention on terrorism, but if I were a gambling man I would bet that the first time this treaty is invoked it will be Darfur all over again, when an expert commission concluded that what's happening over there is not quite a genocide, therefore the UN is not technically obliged to take a strong action to stop it."