little of virtue the United Nations has to offer.
Michelle Malkin has her say on this, and then offers: "Reader Vinod e-mails:
Re: your UN post, please take another look at these countries: China, Russia, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia. what else do you notice? Both Russia and Saudi Arabia's heads of states have been to GW's Crawford Ranch (though i dont recall if President Bush also held hands and smooched Putin), an honor bestowed on few world leaders. Pakistan's Musharraf is routinely praised by Bush despite his non-democratic/military government. probably has his own room in the White House. And China, well with the latest criticism of Taiwan, Bush's kisisng up to the Asian giant needs no further explaining. So, the Bush administration as well as its loyal supporters have no right to criticize the UN. Let the US lead by example first. Let it really support human rights by downgrading its relations with these countries. Then you guys can criticize the UN.
He's got a point."
Well, he does, at that. But the difference between negotiation of international business with China and Saudi Arabia at Crawford and putting the same offenders in charge of the international committee on human rights is the difference between trying to help a known pedophile, after he's released from prison, to find a supervised job to keep him busy, and hiring him to babysit your six-year-old. On the one side, you may gain some influence over the behavior of the offender, and on the other... well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out where I was going with that one.
We do have the right to criticize the UN. We've busted our national hump to do a helluva lot more for human rights and general decency worldwide than the UN will ever pretend to do, the UN is not only filled with corruption but promotes it within, and they sit and cluck at us about... uh... hmmmm.... oh, yeah, apocryphal flushed Korans and fraternity hazing stunts (the horror, the horror!).
God's Buttons! Beckett's plays fall far short of this absurdist scene.
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