The Scandalously Corrupt United Nations

Much of my recent reading has focused on World War II and the creation of the United Nations from the ashes of that horrific conflict.

FDR, Churchill and other leaders of free-world countries put considerable resources, energy and hope into the fledgling organization and believed deeply in its mandate.

Well, not only has the U.N. been a lousy peacekeeper, but it has become profoundly and incurably corrupt.

Mark Steyn recently addressed the issue. A pungent exerpt:

[The U.N.] is a shamefully squalid organization whose corruption is almost impossible to exaggerate. If you think—as the media and the left do in this country—that Iraq is a God-awful mess (which it’s not), then try being the Balkans or Sudan or even Cyprus or anywhere where the problem’s been left to the United Nations. If you don’t want to bulk up your pension by skimming the Oil-for-Food program, no need to worry. Whatever your bag, the UN can find somewhere that suits—in West Africa, it’s Sex-for-Food, with aid workers demanding sexual services from locals as young as four; in Cambodia, it’s drug dealing; in Kenya, it’s the refugee extortion racket; in the Balkans, sex slaves. On a UN peace mission, everyone gets his piece.