In lieu of totally abandoning the one-worlders’ idea of the UN and demoting it to a forum for the has-been politicians to draw their checks from, this statement from John Bolton makes me want to embrace the man and appoint him Secretary General:
Envoy blasts U.N. ’sex and corruption’
NEW YORK — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday the world body is hobbled "by bad management, by sex and corruption" and a lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions. John Bolton also criticized the U.N.’s budget, noting that two-thirds of members pay only 20 percent of the cost, in a speech at a symposium held by the Federalist Society, a conservative law organization. Bolton, a longtime critic of the U.N., has been leading U.S. efforts to reform it after the oil-for-food scandal and sex scandals involving U.N. peacekeepers.
Compare, please, with this statement from the current Secretary General who, while his troops are committing murder and rapine in several African nations, has discovered a sudden interest in cartoons:
In truth, the present conflicts and misunderstandings probably have more to do with proximity than with distance. The offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were first published in a European country which has recently acquired a significant Muslim population, and is not yet sure how to adjust to it. And some of the strongest reactions – perhaps especially the more violent ones – have been seen in Muslim countries where many people feel themselves the victims of excessive Western influence or interference.
The prick. Not only does the man have no sense of shame:
And I think the other thing that has hurt the organization, myself and the staff, is the distraction that has been caused by these politically-motivated campaigns against the UN and against instances of corruption by staff members blown completely out of proportion. In fact when you look at the records and the facts, up to $36 million of investigation, and the kind of scrubbing the UN was given, only one staff member was found to have, maybe have taken $150,000 out of a $64 billion programme. If there was a scandal, it was with the companies and not so much with UN individuals. There may have been instances of mismanagement, yes, maybe we didn’t manage it effectively, but not corruption. Accusations which have really hurt quite a lot.
He also has a son who has no sense of shame:
Wednesday’s report said the panel found no evidence that Kofi Annan had interceded on behalf of Cotecna and no conclusive proof that he knew of his son’s activities. But it provided fresh details suggesting that Kojo Annan, 31, may have obtained privileged information about U.N. business deals from his father’s personal assistant and from contacts in the U.N. procurement office. It also asserted that Kojo Annan abused his father’s diplomatic status to secure more than $20,000 in breaks on taxes and customs fees for a Mercedes-Benz he bought in Geneva in 1998.
I find the accused guilty of crimes against humanity and sentence him to ‘cruel and unusual punishment’. I know you US types have a problem with this sort of thing, so why not offer him an inspection tour of the facilities in Guantanamo?
Hell, if the Sudanese government were a bit less islamo-fascist, I might even sympathize with them for not wanting UN troops in their country. OK, I do sympathize with them on that count, but not for their reasons. When bureaucracy creates alienation of responsibility, who would really want soldiers controlled by bureaucrats in their country?
Hat tip: Filtrat
Michelle Malkin has covered this subject rather extensively, so here’s a few links to her stories:
UN rapes Haiti
UN rapes Bosnia
UN rapes Congo, UN prostitutes Congo, French UN official rapes Congo children
UN rapes Africa
UN rapes the UN
Saturday, March 18th Jyllands-Posten broke the story about an attack by UN special rapporteur Doudou Diéne on Denmark. The report has yet to be released to the public in full, but it was leaked by the UN to press sources in Denmark. The reasons for this are obscure. This blog thinks it is because the Human Rights Committee has been dissolved. This means that the new Human Rights Council won’t be able to meet until sometime this summer. Therefore Mr. Diéne probably leaked the report to the press in Denmark to ensure that it could become part of the debate before it would be seen as old news.
By Poul Højlund
