Archive for October 28th, 2009
Fact stranger than fiction at UN…
As Jonah Goldberg points out, it is nearly impossible to do a parody of the United Nations, because it so routinely parodies itself.
The impulse for a United Nations may have been a noble one, but it was created with all the pathologies of the old League of Nations. No one with a brain can be surprised that it is now little more than an international collection of crooks and leeches, conferring legitimacy upon despots and tyrants while eternally seeking ways to funnel more citizens’ money through its very sticky coffers.