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Amen!

I’m pretty selective about what I watch on the tube these days. At my age – 65 – one learns to apportion one’s diminishing allotment of time on the planet veeerrry carefully. These days it’s mostly wife, children, grandkids (aren’t they great?), a few friends, this computer and now this new -- and welcome -- opportunity to reach others via this column.

Of the new shows this season, one of my favorites is “The Unit.” Created by David Mamet -- “The Untouchables” (the Kevin Costner film) and Shawn Ryan --“The Shield” (with which I have a number of problems related to the X-rated dialog), it portrays the activities of a Delta Force team as they go about doing some of this country’s heavy lifting.

The May 16th episode of the series in question had the boys in Croatia to capture a suspected war criminal. He was to be turned over to a United Nations team for trial for genocide by an international court.

(Parenthetically, I’m still wrestling with the growing use of US military in foreign actions of marginal demonstrated importance to vital US interests or defense but that’s a bit off the topic of this blog. Give me enough time and I’d be willing to wager that my devious little mind will hook up those topics in a future piece.)

The Unit’s clever plan to capture this fellow was figuratively and literally blown apart by the grand-standing, publicity hound of a French colonel commanding the UN force, getting one of the Unit’s men wounded and the subject’s hapless wife and others on both sides needlessly killed.

As riveting as it was, it wasn’t so much the on-screen action that caught my attention. It was the rapid-fire dozen or so highly disparaging remarks by members of the Unit – about the United Nations and its abject ineffectiveness.

At one point I startled my wife when I began hooting and pumping my fist in the air. (Note to self: Self – exercise more control.)

That dialog was co-written by Lynn Mamet, sister of co-creator David.

Friends, when we have high-level folks in Hollywood writing lines trashing the UN it is a very good thing for those of us who have long been advocates of getting the U.S. OUT of the UN and the UN OUT of the U.S.!

A small thing? Perhaps.

But when what had once been considered the stuff of conspiracy nut cases begins to creep into popular culture from, of all places, the generally utopian socialist denizens of Hollywood, there is something big in the wind.

BTW, the men of the Unit cleaned up the mess made by the botched UN operation, captured the bad guy and turned him over to the French colonel – who promptly lost control of his captive and was killed by him. The bad guy wound up full of holes on the floor of the O Club at the Unit’s home base when the bad guy and a few of his pals made a failed attempt at revenge on the members of the Unit.

Who said there are no more happy endings?

Watch this space in the coming months for more – much, much more – on the origins, history and activities of one of the most corrupt and dangerous organizations on the face of the earth – the United Nations.

If enough of us get up to speed on the issue and make enough noise, perhaps that “something in the wind” will be the backs of the corrupt “leaders” of the UN as they sail away from our shores, taking their bankrupt one-world utopian socialist philosophy with them.

I just hope they leave the silverware -- but I’m not holding my breath.