A UN State of Mind
Where Tyrants Are Literally Never Stopped

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
September 24, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/623/a-un-state-of-mind

Excerpt:

We live at a moment in history when tyrants hold forth with none to stop them. Ahmadinejad-the-Monster held forth in all his western-suited glory at the UN and so did the terrorist, Gaddafi. No one at the UN stopped the Libyan madman from speaking well beyond his allotted 15 minutes. If the UN can't even do this, can you imagine them actually stopping a genocide or a terrorist plot in process?

If they can't or won't, why are we funding them? Why do they exist?

The American President has decided to "engage" with the UN and with the world of tyrants. Perhaps he can, perhaps he thinks like them. Me—I have an increasingly hard time dealing with their righteous arrogance and post-colonial resentments, not to mention their demonization of Israel. For example, let me share two recent conversations with you.

In retrospect, both conversations were a little like talking to Red Guard Maoist youth leaders in 1949 in China.

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