UN: Worse than Useless

The United Nations is becoming more than just a collection of clueless corrupt imbeciles gathered in New York to attempt to get rich nations guilt-tripped into giving more money to corrupt clueless regimes scattered across the Southern Hemisphere. Here is another colossal bit of nonsense from the Cave of Winds on Turtle Bay:

"Iran's president said on Friday his country would pay no attention to international calls to halt its nuclear work, hours before the U.N. atomic watchdog reports on whether Tehran has met U.N. Security Council demands," Reuters reports from Tehran:

"Those who want to prevent Iranians from obtaining their right, should know that we do not give a damn about such resolutions," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a rally in northwest Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is expected to tell the council and the agency's board on Friday that Iran has not stopped enriching uranium or fully answered IAEA queries as the U.N. body asked a month ago.

On a related subject, here's an April 10 U.N. press release:

The recent record of the Disarmament Commission was far from satisfactory, but now, more than ever, it should use the opportunity of an agreed agenda to strengthen the disarmament machinery to effectively deal with new emerging threats and challenges, the new Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, Nobuaki Tanaka, said today upon the opening of the Commission's substantive session. . . .

In other business, the following delegations were elected as Vice-chairpersons, by acclamation: Chile, Uruguay and Iran.

Chairing the U.N.'s disarmament commission is a country whose head of state doesn't "give a damn" about his obligations to the U.N. In light of all this, of what use is the U.N.? Indeed, isn't it worse than useless?

I wonder if Iran, in light of its intransigent refusal to stop trying to acquire nuclear weapons, will be stripped of its post of "Vice-Chairperson" of the Disarmament Commission? Indeed, the UN is such a corrupt discredited institution that I doubt if the General Assembly, whose collective psychosis appears to be institutional, even recognizes that Iran has a "conflict of interest."

Such an exalted ethical concept would appear beyond the capability of the GenAss. Lord knows the "journalists" at Reuters probably have trouble figuring out the newsworthiness of Iran's Vice-Chairpersonship of the Disarmament Commission themselves, as they are generally recruited for their ideological perversions rather than reportorial or investigative capabilities.