I've been on a bit of an anti-United Nations kick for a while now. Especially since I read somewhere that we provide 22% of the budget for the UN. I'm thinking we should ask for our money back. Or at least stop funding some of the idiocy out there. Case in point:
The inequality and injustice of the treatment of Israel becomes most obvious in comparison with the U.N.'s treatment of human-rights violations elsewhere in the world. A U.N. General Assembly resolution on Iran could only be adopted last week after any notion of creating a single investigator into human-rights abuse in that country was eliminated. No resolution was even attempted on countries like China, where 1.3 billion people are without basic civil and political rights, or Saudi Arabia, where gross discrimination against women is endemic and more than a million female migrant workers are essentially slaves. Resolutions put forward on Sudan and Zimbabwe were prevented this week from even coming to a vote. The grand total of the GA's 2004 country-specific criticism of human-rights violations around the globe in the 190 U.N. members, excluding Israel: One resolution for each of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Myanmar, and Turkmenistan. It was on November 24 that the U.N. General Assembly defeated action on Sudan and Zimbabwe. Simultaneously, U.N. delegates in the adjoining room adopted nine resolutions condemning Israel.
This is from an article in National Review titled Fatal Failure. It really focuses on the hypocrisy of the United Nation's treatment of Israel. While the scandal with Kofi Annan unfolds its important to remember just what a messed up organization this is.