{"id":42822,"date":"2018-04-18T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42822"},"modified":"2018-03-28T09:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T13:39:16","slug":"qotd-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/qotd-the-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog faeces and mix &#8217;em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That&#8217;s the problem with the UN. If you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn&#8217;t that they&#8217;ll meet each other half-way but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way. Thus the Oil-for-Fraud scandal: in the end, Saddam Hussein had a much shrewder understanding of the way the UN works than Bush and Blair did.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, corrupt organisations rarely stop at just one kind. If you don&#8217;t want to bulk up your pension by skimming the Oil-for-Food programme, don&#8217;t worry, whatever your bag, the UN can find somewhere that suits &mdash; in West Africa, it&#8217;s Sex-for-Food, with aid workers demanding sexual services from locals as young as four; in Cambodia, it&#8217;s drug dealing; in Kenya, it&#8217;s the refugee extortion racket; in the Balkans, sex slaves.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portal.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2005\/02\/15\/do1502.xml\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;UN forces &mdash; just a bunch of thugs?&#8221;, <em>Telegraph Online<\/em><\/a> 2005-02-15<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog faeces and mix &#8217;em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That&#8217;s the problem with the UN. If you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[362,21,8,41],"tags":[978,363,642,691],"class_list":["post-42822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-bureaucracy","category-quotations","tag-cambodia","tag-corruption","tag-kenya","tag-unitednations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-b8G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42823,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42822\/revisions\/42823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}