Dysfunctional Family
Claudia Rossett does a great job in the Wall Street Journal, comparing the nations of the world as organized under the UN to a family. Unfortunately,the family resembles the Sopranos.
There’s no question that for Iraq there are rough times ahead, and much yet hangs in balance. Recovering from decades of hideous abuse takes time, as any family counselor can tell you. But for all Iraq’s troubles, at some point in its absence these past 15 months from Mr. Annan’s household, Iraqis acquired a free press, a pluralistic government, and the first hope in generations of freedom. If that is what leaving the U.N. fold for 15 months can do for a nation, maybe more of Mr. Annan’s U.N. family should go AWOL.
— Lorie Byrd