Critics of US gloat over 'crumbling capitalism'

As the US sought to find a way out of the financial crisis, its critics at the United Nations were gloating over what they described as the crumbling of US capitalism.

Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the former Sandinista revolutionary in Nicaragua who is now serving as president of the UN 192-nation General Assembly, broke with protocol in his opening speech to denounce the “unbridled greed and irresponsibility of the powerful"... [snip]

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, told the visiting leaders: “We need a new understanding on business ethics and governance, with more compassion and less uncritical faith in the ‘magic’ of markets"...

[that's it: the UN is lecturing us on 'ethics and governance' - spare me. better yet...

U.S. Must Give U.N. The Boot

I've demanded it before, to no avail. Now, the U.S. should again consider getting out of the U.N., and the U.N. out of the U.S. What better timing than in a transitional election year? Nothing of lasting importance ever happens at the U.N. Why throw good money after bad?

The U.N. prefers to stand aside in internal conflicts and just look at the bloody rampages in Zimbabwe. Or, wring its hands when Burma suffered through a devastating hurricane. Humanitarian aid? Obviously not the U.N.'s table.
Instead, the U.N. elected Zimbabwe to head its commission on finance and the environment. Can anyone name a more horrible financial role model than Zimbabwe?"

Like the U.N.'s move to elect both Syria and Iran to its disarmament commission last year. Syria keeps Muslim terrorists well-armed and Iran promises to wipe out Israel and western civilization in general. And the U.N. has poured tens of millions of dollars into North Korea, another country illicitly developing and testing nukes.

Why do we allow embarrassments like these to happen on U.S. territory?

Now, the U.N. has the gall to examine the human rights record of the U.S. By a leftist lawyer from Senegal. It evidently never occurred to the U.N. to review countries that really do violate human rights. The U.N. frequently states it shouldn't be involved in the "internal affairs" of member states. What business, then, has the U.N. examining America's limited application of the death penalty and her jailing of juveniles?

There's something terribly wrong with this picture. We shouldn't be part of it and our hard-earned tax money shouldn't go to its financing, either. We can accomplish more by acting on our own or through regional pacts like NATO. Plus, giving the U.N. the boot would free up a valuable slice of real estate on New York's East Side.

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UNsalvageable. Time to scrap it and start over >

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