Mark Steyn: There is no cure for the UN

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 09/17/05 | Mark Steyn

[Pokey78]

Steyn ping!

[highlymotivated]

I disagree. There certainly IS a cure:

HR 1146

[henkster]

The UN only exists to help themselves to American wealth. The people who run the UN are no different than the crowd that ran the place formerly known as New Orleans.

[Lurker]

Thanks for the ping Pokey.

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[maica]

Breathtakingly brilliant! Steyn is such an educator.

The UN is so Sept 10th, and we should keep it that way. YES!

[Tolik]

It can not be any more brilliant!

Thank for the ping, Pokey.

Mark Steyn BUMP!!

[namsman]

Ping

[Rummyfan]

The polite fictions of Kofi Annan really belong to the lost world of 10 September 2001. It was very agreeable if you were one of the bespoke chaps cruising from summit to summit — UN, EU, G8 — mediating the cares of the planet. And it was all terribly sophisticated, as sophisticated as an urbane Paris boulevardier from the fin de siècle, impeccably coiffed and coutured but riddled with syphilis. Since Osama bin Laden blew apart those polite fictions, the effective international relationships — America and Australia, America and India — have taken place without the construction of permanent secretariats. Let’s keep it that way. The best way to avoid having to ‘reform’ transnational bureaucracies is not to have them in the first place.

Absolutely brilliant Steyn! Thanks Pkoey!

[GOPJ]

Kofi Annan ... So what if his brother and his son and his son’s best pal are under investigation in the UN oil-for-food scandal? So what if his secretariat got a $1.4 billion oil-for-food administration fee yet apparently couldn’t afford an auditor for the programme?

Kofi - all hat, no cattle, all illusion, no substance...

And last but not least: all sociopathic charm, no integrity.

[sandydipper]

Kofi, his boy et al - need to be in jail. The US should walk away from the corruption and let the UN sink in it's own stinch.

[arthurus]

You can take the man out of the Third World but you can't take...

[BartMan1]

Obviously, within those various blocs, America has many friends. But the regional voting structure of the UN means that even relatively well-disposed allies become less friendly when their voice is filtered through geographic groupings that prize solidarity over all. For example, Libya became chairman of the UN Human Rights Commission because it was felt to be Africa’s turn and Africa put up only one candidate and the European Union had agreed to vote as a bloc and they didn’t wish to be seen to be disrespecting Africa by voting against its preferred candidate, so they abstained. So, by filtering Britain’s voice through one transnational body (the EU) into another (the UN) to vote on the candidate of a third (the African Union), Her Majesty’s Government is now on record as having no objection to the world’s leading human rights body being headed by a one-man dictatorship that blows up American airliners in British airspace. It’s a good thing the UN has ‘moral authority’, because the United Kingdom certainly doesn’t. Thus, transnationalism artificially diminishes the voice of second-tier powers and artificially inflates basket-case psycho states.

Blimey, he's right.

[camle]

there IS a cure for the UN - give Turtle bay back to the turtles.

[metesky]

Bumperoo!

[kellynla]

BTTT

[Travis McGee]

Only UN-Americans put the UN before America!

[You Dirty Rats]

But what the figures really demonstrate is that the logic of the post-Cold War UN is to be institutionally anti-American.

Exactly what we discussed on the phone last night.

Steyn's article is brilliant throughout, but that one sentence is all that is really needed. The UN should be moved to Geneva.

[You Dirty Rats]

Only UN-Americans put the UN before America!

That's why Kerry, Carter, Clinton and friends are so pro-UN and why they are loved by our enemies and so-called friends around the world.

[alwaysconservative]

I so adore this man! It's hard not to go ga-ga over his incredible mind! Thanks for the ping, Pokey!

This gem is too long to be my new tag, but along with his biting wit ("thugocracies", "Undeportable, that's what you are"), proves why THIS MAN is simply the best:
"Transnationalism is the mechanism by which the world’s most enlightened progressives provide cover for its darkest forces."