Why Conservatives hate the UN

Example #1:

The French general commanding U.N. peacekeeping forces in Lebanon said Monday his troops would not intervene to disarm Hezbollah, even as French President Jacques Chirac said the militant group should not keep a military wing. Maj. Gen. Alain Pelligrini told reporters the main task of his U.N. force is to ensure southern Lebanon cannot be used as a base for attacks on Israel. "The disarmament of Hezbollah is not the business of UNIFIL. This is a strictly Lebanese affair, which should be resolved at a national level," he said.

Then, with all due respect, why the hell are you even there?Why do I hate the UN? Because most of the time they don't actually accomplish much. And when they do, it's likely it could have been done more effectively and cheaper by somebody else.

Blue helmets parading around Southern Lebanon doing nothing all day will not secure any sort of real peace between Israel and Hizbollah. It just won't. You can bank on it.

For those of you curious as to how Hizbollah stood up so effectively to Israel in July, they knew what was coming:Hezbollah fighters reportedly used Iranian-supplied technology to tap Israeli radio comms during last month's war in southern Lebanon. The intelligence gleaned from these intercepts helped frustrate Israeli tank attacks, according to Hezbollah and Lebanese officials.

UPDATE: Example #2.That this clown can even get through the front door much less take the podium and speechify simply screams irrelevance.


It's the stuff of SNL skits, not 'serious diplomacy' (which is in itself a glaring oxymoron).