Well "everybody else did it too" isn't really a great defense. I think we should ask for high standards in the current administration (and the next one too, for that matter). Let's do better in the future than we have in the past.
I'm starting to think the UN is beyond reform and beyond help. It's time to start thinking about more radical solutions.
How about New York uses the Kelo decision to raise the U.N. building to put up a Starbucks?