More on the UN

I've been writing letters to the editor about the U.N., but none have been published. A year or two ago the small Southern Utah town of Laverkin gained notoriety by passing a resolution purporting to outlaw the U.N. within its limits. It was treated as a canard at the time, but its judgment is looking better all the time. Instapundit linked to this account today. You probably won't see this in any American papers, except maybe the WSJ and the Weekly Standard. Since I first read about the history of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, I've realized that the UN was not the benign influence I had been taught in grade school. It's more like the Third World culture brought to a position where it presumes to dictate policy to the first. It's what Americans have done to assuage their guilt for being prosperous instead of seeking to extend freedom and democracy after WWII.

If people think that Iraq is incapable of democracy, what makes them think that the U.N., which is mostly peopled by people with a similar background, is any better?