Another week of dithering infamy at the UN

David Warren:

This has been another week of infamy at the United Nations -- they have strung quite a few hundred of them together -- and while one can’t refer to a “low point” in an institution that is morally bottomless, the failure to do anything even mildly credible about the nuclear threat from Iran is at least worthy of note.

Three weeks after the urgent matter of Iran’s non-compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was referred to it, the Security Council issued a non-binding presidential statement. The members could not even draft a Security Council resolution. They could not bring themselves to repeat the grave charges tabled by their own International Atomic Energy Agency, nor formally acknowledge that the IAEA had presented the case to them for action. They found no fault in the Iranian president’s repeated promises to “wipe-out Israel”, or in his public musings about the Koranic apocalypse being at hand.

Instead, they expressed “serious concerns”, about e.g. "Iran’s decision to resume enrichment-related activities”, and called upon that country to “take steps ... which are essential to build confidence”. After which, Iran replied with a huge public raspberry.

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To my mind, it is the height of irresponsibility to refer anything at all to the United Nations. This is the organization that previously enabled the intransigence of Saddam Hussein; which channelled billions of “oil-for-food” dollars to him and his stooges while pocketing the change; thus providing Saddam with the means to buy protection from politicians in France, Russia, and elsewhere. It is the organization whose “peacekeepers” are running paedophile rackets all over Africa. Which gobbled large sums designated for the relief of tsunami victims in Indonesia. Which operates under a secretary-general who persistently sabotages American and other Western efforts to fight international terrorism. I could go on.

At perhaps a deeper level of corruption, the “U.N. ideal” provides ideological cover to the whited sepulchres of the international Left -- a rhetorical cudgel to be used against any defender of Western values and moral norms, by posturing "revolutionaries" in the Third World, and the West’s own intellectual traitors. Behind and beneath them is what one of the U.N.’s own internal auditors has called “the culture of impunity”, wherein traditional diplomatic immunities have been freed from all traditional accountability, in a bureaucracy that appears to exist for no other purpose than to serve itself.

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The UN prefidity if the hoop you have to jump through politically, to get "legitimacy" for taking actions that should be obvious to every one.