[Ladysmith]

Let's read that again!

It is a sacred-cow status that is rarely justified by the evidence. The blunt truth is that on international crises ranging from war in Iraq to the waters of the Indian Ocean, the UN is philosophically redundant, structurally irrelevant and bureaucratically ossified.

[Jean S]

What a fabulous title! Great article too, thanks for posting it.

[Ladysmith]

Check this out!

[Navy Patriot]

Why replace something that is less than useless? Just cut off all support and diplomatic immunity and they'll be gone in a month.

[isthisnickcool]

The UN is a criminal enterprise. None of our money should fall into their sticky hands.

[silverleaf]

UN Ping

[DainBramage]

Which makes the new Aide Relief Alliance Bush proposed with Australia, India, and Japan a necessity.

The U.N. is nothing more than an international cabal of thieves taking a cut of every aid dollar,

and every budgeted mission everywhere in the world. They are afraid to say it out loud,

but now they are reduced to just going around it and letting it survive hoping it will eventually change.

[oldbrowser]

The cult of the UN for its own sake has become counter-productive. It has its virtues, but has neither a unique ethical merit nor unrivalled practical credibility.

The Brits have way with words. The UN has outlived it's
usefulness, it is corrupt and ineffective.

[Billthedrill]

His original comments were perhaps the most unfortunate by a public official since Hubert Humphrey, a former US Vice-President, responded to a failed attempt to shoot President Gerald Ford by saying: “There are far too many guns in the hands of people who don’t know how to use them.”

ROTFLMAO! I remember that one - it would have been a wonderful double-edged comment if Hube The Cube had had a vindictive bone in his body, which he didn't.

It has been my painful duty occasionally to defend the idea of the UN here on FR, and one of its principal missions is the coordination of disaster relief in times such as this, or it would be if the UN could get over its structural and political inadequacies to cover it. It can't. And it isn't getting any better at it as time goes on.

Can somebody else do it better? Aside, that is, from the U.S. military, whose job it decidedly isn't but who has, time after time, stepped into the breach? This author thinks the G8 might serve that function. But it isn't really their job by design either.

In the meantime, of course, kids from Macon and Provo are going to be tossing boxes out of helicopters while somebody else squabbles for the credit. The world should be able to do better than that, but it isn't.

[sauropod]

read later

[Colosis]

You know, I'm glad that UN buff called the US stingy and and that Claire Short said that military aid would be too expensive! The world now sees that US carrier anchored off Ache, and the 1000 marines in Sri Lanka. It shows the UN and the left up for what they really are. Let them snipe, the bastards.

[sgtbono2002]

The UN has been trying to get the US to give them enough money to renovate their building, After this they wont need to ask anymore, they should easily be able to skim enough off.

[o_zarkman44]

UN= Usless Nobodys