If Ahmadinejad Wants the UN, Let Him Have It
I love Claudia Rosett:
Earlier in the week I suggested that the UN be turned into a school where Liberals could go to get educated about Capitalism.
Claudia had a better idea!
“I’ll add to the list one more suggestion. What makes that UN stage such a prize for the likes of Ahmadinejad is the support — both political and financial — conferred upon it by the democratic nations of the world, especially the United States. If the UN can’t deal with Ahmadinejad, let Ahmadinejad deal with the UN. Get out, and give it to him. Send it to Tehran, lock, stock and reconfigured Security Council. Let him make all the speeches he wants. With that clutter out of the way, and with the $5.3 billion the U.S. would save every year, plus the considerable moral and political capital we have been squandering on the UN, we might just have a shot at creating in its place institutions that work.”
Jenny Hatch