I really don’t know which part of the latest UN gathering is the funniest, the saddest, or the sickest. Is it Mad Mahmoud saying that 9/11 was an inside job (or a Zionist plot)?
Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad provoked yet another controversy Thursday saying a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11 terror attacks in an attempt to assure Israel’s survival.
Was it the fact that over 150 nations remained to listen to his drivel?
Was it this laugh-out-loud statement by Ban Ki-Moon on what the world thinks of the collection of dictatorships, kleptocracies, autocracies and kingdoms?
“We hear the language of hate, false divisions between `them’ and `us,’ those who insist on `their way’ or `no way,'” he said.
In times of such polarization and uncertainty, Ban said, “let us remember, the world still looks to the United Nations for moral and political leadership.”
Yes, the moral and political leadership of the UN is fully documented: UN peacekeepers have been involved in multiple cases of rape, child sex, and thievery. UN forces stood by and watched massacres, let terrorists (Hezbullah) rearm, and have even helped terrorists evade capture and punishment by Israel.
And then there’s the UN Human Rights Council. Led by Libya. Yes, Libya. Also Angola, Mauritania, Qatar and Malaysia. And China and Saudi Arabia, those bastions of human rights. Now that’s moral and political leadership!
Can you think of a single war or outbreak of violence that the United Nations has managed to prevent or stop—one that didn’t include Israel, that is? Why, exactly, have we got this money-sink in New York again?
I don’t want my tax dollars going to the kleptocracy that is the UN. It’s too bad the Republicans didn’t add a pledge to push the UN out of New York. Then we wouldn’t have to have the annual Mad Mahmoud circus. He knows damned well who pulled off 9/11. Iran is shielding members of al Qaeda, and has been doing so since before 2001.
Ah, for the good old days when our CIA was allowed to assassinate people.
You know, Meryl, I used to think it was only right-wing nuts who sayd, “Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.” But that property on the East River is valuable; let’s send the UN off somewhere and turn the land into productive use.
I look to the UN for moral leadership in the same way I look to the “Police Academy” movies for instruction on cinematic subtlety.
All you need to know about the UN is that Taiwan and Israel cannot be full members.
When thuggish dictators can exclude liberal democracies and it’s called a paragon of moral leadership, well, that’s suitable for The Funniest End of Civilization Ever.
Just saw the end of “Hot Shots Part Deux” the other day and laughed my ass off. Yep. Good analogy, Alex.
well said. i remember all too well the mid-90’s, as “UN Peacekeepers” declared one city after another a safe haven for Bosniaks. by securing them in one place, it made it much easier for the Serb forces to murder them.
the President of Iran, in one respect at least, is on the same page as the U.S.: he refuses to emphasize the Saudi component in the 9/11 attacks, the *largest* component. it is nothing short of bizarre. the Saudi government is on record as being impatient for America and/or Israel to attack Iran .. and Ahmadinejad treats those guys with kid gloves? very strange. he could at least have scored some propaganda points as the House of Saud are deeply unpopular among the Sunni mainstream.