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.
Glad to see you are carrying on a family tradition. I was in favor of moving the UN to East Berlin way, way back when. I hope someday I will get over the shame of being a student delegate to a UNESCO conference in the very late 40's or early 50's, of having any association whatsoever with this corrupt organization. I didn't go voluntarily--it was a school assignment.
I speak Chinese as a first language, and I can say media from South East Asian countries (which is what ASEAN countries cover: it has Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, the Philippines, Indonesi, and Brunei covered). Much of the media is fiercely Third World nationalistic anti-American and to the extreme hardcore veriety - nothing short og a President Noam Chomsky on the part of the UNited States will make these chaps happy. They actually make Germany or Sweden, if not France, like Steyn's friends. Sure, there are friends of America in the region, such as Singapore and Thailand, but some countries are actively anti-American (Burma no doubt, Malaysia is the main one).
And because this region is no basketbase (Malaysia is actually very powerful economically) and not stagnating like the EU, it is quite an alarming prospect for the US.