The President wasted his time chatting up the expense account jockeys at United Nations headquarters today - Bush Calls on U.N. to Unify Against Terrorism. Quick, what has 191 assholes and no brain? Answer here.
It was nice of ole
And I'll bet the President didn't know the UN was already on the case as the Chicago Sun-Times editorializes:
The United Nations is beleaguered, under physical attack by terrorists in Iraq and rhetorical assault by those who have come to question what purpose the U.N. is serving in this complex, violent world. So the U.N. decided to re-establish its relevance in a characteristic way: It's holding a conference, seeking to understand the motives of terrorism and divine the "roots of evil.'' Of course it is.Why are we still wasting time and money on this farce?
''We have to deal with the roots and fanaticism behind terrorism in order to make the fight more effective,'' said Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, chairman of the conference. ''Fighting terrorism should be about more than using your military and freezing finances.''
It should? Perhaps if you are already using military might against terrorism and freezing its assets, but the U.N. is doing neither in any significant fashion.
Otherwise a conference is exactly the sort of thumb-twiddling that has created the image -- or, if you prefer, the reality -- of the U.N. as an expensive stage for the tin pot dictatorships of the world to tweak the nose of the United States in prime time.
