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November 14, 2002
And some flea powder, too I'm hard pressed to understand how anyone could honestly hold a positive view of the United Nations. They largely constitute the scummiest scrapings of human society pretending to be some gathering of the world's guardians.
As it pertains to American actions vis a vis Iraq, the approval of the UN does not add any real moral authority, but actually actively detracts from it. Getting UN co-operation has almost nothing to do with having convinced anyone about the moral or humanitarian import of taming Saddam. It has everything to do with wheeling and dealing for money and power. As Jonah Goldberg puts it with beautiful clarity in the money quote of his new column:
By pleading for U.N. approval, the no-blood-for-oil crowd increased the international trade in both blood and oil. In order to get the votes of Russia and China we had to give those countries a free pass at killing their Muslim Chechen and Uighur populations, respectively. We also had to promise the continuity of France's oil contracts, and of Russia's too.
I would think US or British ambassadors would need a scented bath after a day of dealing with the likes of the Syrian government just to wash the stink off.
