It's difficult to discriminate among relative expressions of genius. What Mark does so well here is trash bogus intentions for their lack of results. You would have liked to have saved that small child from the fire - but somebody else was willing to go in and you stopped him. Your merit should be zero or negative and that is what Mark is telling me.
I don't always agree with Mark Steyn, but I agree 100 % with this one. I wrote something very similar last week on another forum I frequent. When it comes to actually doing something about much of anything, the UN is, if you'll excuse the expression, as useless as tits on a bull.