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MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Can We Quit The UN Yet? Why on Earth are Americans, unlike their enlightened c?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Can We Quit The UN Yet?

Why on Earth are Americans, unlike their enlightened comrades in Europe, so skeptical of the United Nations? I haven’t a clue, though I suspect that, as Tim Cavanaugh noted a few weeks ago, it might have something to do with Iran being nominated to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. This was Tehran’s Plan B, having been pressured into abandoning its bid to sit on the UN Human Rights Council. Hilarious, right? After slaughtering demonstrators in the streets, filling the torture chambers at Evin prison with students, they wanted to adjudicate on human rights violations in other countries? Silly Mullahs, those spots are resevered for countries like Switzerland, Spain, and…Libya.

Good grief.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).