Bolton & the UN: 'Physician, Heal Thyself'

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Imagine a guy bursts into your hospital room, reeking of tequila, clad in dirty and torn clothes, bruised and wounded, cigarette dangling from his lips, his unshaven face loudly barking incoherent commands as he stumbles about the place with bloodshot eyes barely half-open.

Imagine if this same guy, puffing himself up with great moral authority and booming voice as he turns to address the wall, insists that he’s your doctor, and brusquely demands that you submit to an amputation of your head as the only possible remedy for your illness, even though you’re just in for observation of your little snoring problem.

Now add a big goofy mustache to this picture and you have a pretty good sense of what the UN must be feeling these days.

After all, America loves to shout about UN spending excesses, despite the fact that the entire budget for the organization and all its programs – this is the ‘world government’, mind you – is less than one-fourth that of its host city, New York, a paltry $12 billion. So, what then? Should the UN be more like the US government, and amass staggering annual budget deficits?

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1229-23.htm