Tuesday, February 15, 2005

The U.N. Strikes Again

Mark Steyn has a great piece on the unimaginable corruption of the U.N. and the puzzling lack of interest on the part of the world press corps.

It's a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog faeces and mix 'em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That's the problem with the UN. If you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn't that they'll meet each other half-way but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way. Thus the Oil-for-Fraud scandal: in the end, Saddam Hussein had a much shrewder understanding of the way the UN works than Bush and Blair did.


Read the whole article at opinion.telegraph. Then ask yourself...why isn't anyone screaming for Kofi's head on a platter?

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