The UN is merely an unaccountable group of thugs with free reign to rob and demonize Americans. Obama says, let's have more.
2/11/11, "U.N. deserved," IBD Editorial
"Policy Errors: The administration is embarking on a campaign to promote the U.N. and America's role in the organization.
- This is exactly the opposite of what it should be doing.
The White House is sending Susan Rice, its ambassador to the United Nations, out to make a series of speeches through the spring. She will reportedly talk about how the world body should be strengthened rather than starved.
This is breathtakingly foolish. It strains the mind to think of
- even one instance in which the U.N. has made the world a better place.
Has it ever stopped a war? Halted genocide? Eliminated starvation? Wiped out terrorism? Resolved a major conflict before it became violent?
- Can the U.N. say that it has replaced a tyranny with a representative government?
Or liberated oppressed women in Muslim nations?
Since the U.N. was founded in 1945, a million or more have been victims of genocide in Darfur and Rwanda. A war that's not officially over was fought in the Korean peninsula and another raged in Vietnam.
Israelis and Arabs have continued to kill one another as the Palestinian problem festers still. Terrorists have murdered thousands.
- A mad regime in Iran has been allowed to pursue nuclear arms.
The U.N.'s decision-making is as lousy as its record. This is a group that has chosen a Cuban government functionary to lead its Human Rights Council
- and placed Libya on the same board.
The oil-for-food scandal was hatched in the U.N.'s halls and its leadership dispatched the peacekeepers who've been cited for abusing and
- prostituting young girls in Africa and the Balkans.
The U.N. is a corrosive enterprise that habitually rebukes Israel, a nation that consistently votes with the U.S. more than any other country, and has given warm welcomes and
- friendly forums for despots such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
For all these and many other wonderful services, U.S. taxpayers support the U.N. to the tune of $1.25 billion a year, roughly 25% of the organization's budget. But whatever the price, it's too much for an incompetent,
- even malignant, assembly of increasingly anti-American diplomats,
- bureaucrats and fat cats.
The U.N. is a disgrace with problems too deep to be reformed. It should be defunded and its corrupt leaders defenestrated. The better alternative is
- an alliance of the free nations whose governments and cultures prefer a world of peace and prosperity."
Reference: 4/15/09, "UN spent US funds on shoddy projects," USA Today, Ken Dilanian
"Commissioner Zakheim, a former Pentagon controller, asked Gambatesa whether the agencies
- have immunity
- "if they siphon (their U.S. grants) all off into Swiss banks? Is that accurate?
- They will be totally immune,
- no matter what they do with the money?"
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