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FP: Mr. Babbin, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview. It is a pleasure to have you with us. Babbin: It's my pleasure entirely. FP: Tell our readers why you have titled your book “Inside the Asylum.” Babbin: One definition of insanity is doing the same thing in the same way again and again and expecting different results. By that definition, the UN is an asylum, and America is one of the inmates. We keep trying with the UN but the result is always the same: we become stuck in a quagmire of diplomacy. The point is that the UN's mission...

During his years at the United Nations, monitoring sanctions imposed on Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf war, critics called Michael Soussan a baby killer. One said the oil-for-food programme administered by the UN amounted to "overseeing genocide". To Mr Soussan's dismay, the most vocal critics worked alongside him at the UN. The genocide charge was levelled by an assistant secretary general in charge of humanitarian work in Iraq. His colleagues blamed the Security Council - especially the United States and Britain - for the suffering of Iraqis, ignoring evidence that Saddam was stealing food from his own people's mouths....