08.19.06
UN-able diplomacy
So, Iran is a member of this prestigious body.
And here’s how Iran upholds the principles of that very entity.
I could launch into an argument for why the United States should withdraw from the UN and simply pursue American interests unilaterally, but the article above makes the point for me. The UN gets nothing done without American leadership. The UN barely gets anything done with American leadership. To think that we can accomplish anything meaningful on human rights with stone-throwing troglodytes like the Iranian regime is the biggest water-pipe dream any pothead ever had.
The UN doesn’t work, folks. Not for collective security, not for human rights enforcement, and not for much else. The League of Nations - the UN’s predecessor - was a joke, despite the Wilsonian idealism that created it. Collective arrangements can’t work unless the participants have common interests to pursue. NATO worked during the Cold War, because the parties to NATO had a clear mission (which no longer exists, by the way), and because NATO members pledged assistance to each other in the event of hostile military action by the Soviets. By contrast, the UN accepts friends and enemies alike.
And with friends like these, who needs enemies? I’m a big fan of hobbies, and these guys need one, REAL BAD. Thanks to Little Green Footballs for the picture.
