Doesn't this anti-UN hysteria seem a little overblown?

The U.N. is sapping America's prestige, tying us down in Lilliputian legal restraints whose origins and logic are never questioned. To hope that the U.N. will go the way of the League of Nations ignores the vital force America has imparted to it over the last 60 years. Our creation has become a hostile power, one that profoundly distorts the natural power patterns of international security, and protects the gestation of the most terrifying threats we have ever faced. The U.N. should either be reformed to serve the purposes of its founding, or we should kill it off once and for all. Whichever you prefer, the numbingly tepid report of Kofi Annan's panel may just prove to be an opportunity in disguise.

The UN is sapping America's prestige? Tying us down in Lilliputian restraints? How can the right be so emotional about an institution that the US has calmly bypassed in its last three military interventions? And to think the NY Sun is calling on President Bush to nominate Bill Kristol as US ambassador to the UN.

Posted by Laura at December 15, 2004 12:47 PM