The United Nation's Moral Authority Gets Tenuous at Times
Lately, we've been on a "you can take the corrupt bureaucrat out of his plutocracy, but putting him in the United Nations won't take the plutocracy out of the corrupt bureaucrat" kick. It's not the catchiest phrase in the world, but it gets the job done. We're of the opinion that it takes more than a leather chair, an expensive table, and a nameplate to transform friends of dictators and terrorists (not to mention the dictators and terrorists themselves) into little Thomas Jeffersons. Execrable human beings remain execrable human beings - with all their execrable sympathies and sensibilities - even if you give them corner offices on the East River or at The Hague. See?
The United Nations invited Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe to a conference in Rome, where, to an audience of applauding UN delegates, he gave a speech comparing Bush and Blair to Hitler and Mussolini. "Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, form an alliance to attack an innocent country?" asked Mr. Mugabe, apparently referring to Iraq.
The United Nations invited Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe to a conference in Rome, where, to an audience of applauding UN delegates, he gave a speech comparing Bush and Blair to Hitler and Mussolini. "Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed [an] unholy alliance, form an alliance to attack an innocent country?" asked Mr. Mugabe, apparently referring to Iraq.
