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Posted at 9:52am on Jun. 22, 2008 When you make foreign policy in Hyde Park salons
By Soren Dayton
When you make foreign policy in Hyde Park salons you make it in a vacuum of ignorance. Take, for example, Barack Obama's Iran policy. Today, European leaders savage it Obama's Iran policy in the Washington Post. The problem is simple: Obama's promises to meet with Iran's leaders are at odds with a well-coordinated strategy with our European allies and the United Nations. And, yet again, our allies object. Read on after the jump.
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Posted at 3:29pm on Mar. 7, 2008 U.N. Panel Considers Whether U.S. Gov't Katrina Response Was 'Racist' [UPDATE]
By Vladimir
[UPDATE: Stop the presses! The U.N. has taken an anti-U.S. position! Details here.]
I don't know whether the Oracles From On High have passed judgment on this issue, but the story has qualities that suggest it is right out of Alice in Wonderland.
Housing critics never visited N.O.
A United Nations panel will decide Friday whether the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina violated a treaty on racism, and its ruling could be influenced by a controversial statement from two U.N. advisers who last week labeled the planned demolition of four New Orleans public housing complexes as "discriminatory" even though neither visited the city to research the issue.
Last week's statement drew international media coverage and was hailed by opponents of a plan to replace the four housing complexes with mixed-income neighborhoods, although the plan also calls for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to retain several other public housing complexes in New Orleans. HUD also has provided vouchers through which former public housing residents can rent private apartments across the city.
The U.N. specialists now acknowledge that they haven't been to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina and were basing their opinion largely on the views of activists who have waged an unsuccessful campaign to halt the demolitions. [emphasis added]
But, wait! There's more!
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Posted at 12:34am on Jan. 20, 2008 The United Nations Continues to Fulfill its Greatest Role
By Ben Domenech
As you may have heard, the United Nations has named George Clooney an Official Messenger of Peace.
In other news, the United Nations has also named 2008 the International Year of the Potato.
Since George Clooney and your average Potato have roughly the same IQ, give or take a point, I applaud the United Nations for continuing to fulfill their role of elevating the mentally retarded to high-ranking positions for the entertainment of the human race. It's especially needed during a writer's strike. Huzzah!
Posted at 6:35pm on Dec. 8, 2007 In Which I Disconsolately Note That Dishonesty Sometimes Pays
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
Posted at 7:10pm on Nov. 19, 2007 "The Path to Victory"
By AcademicElephant
Full dislosure: I am completely and totally biased in favor of this speech. But I am still curious to know everyone else's thoughts--comments thus enabled.
Posted at 4:03am on Nov. 4, 2007 Another Moment Of Non-Glory
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
The U.N. Human Rights Commission doesn't exactly work hard to court American affection, does it?
Maybe it's our fault. I'm sure that if we offered a few bribes to the right people, we would get our weapons as surely as day follows night.
And no, these are not the only moments of non-glory for the United Nations.
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