Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Mark Steyn:
"Remember the tsunami? Big story, 300,000 dead; America and other rich countries too "stingy" in their response; government ministers from every capital on earth announcing on CNN every 10 minutes more and more millions and gazillions. It was in all the papers for a week or two, but not a lot of water under the bridge since then, and as a result this interesting statistic may not have caught your eye: Five hundred containers, representing one-quarter of all aid sent to Sri Lanka since the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, are still sitting on the dock in Colombo, unclaimed or unprocessed."
That's a full 25%, five months later, sitting on a dock. While people went without.
As Mr. Steyn says, "Whatever one feels about it, the United States manages to function. The U.N. apparatus doesn't."
Why should the UN get more power again? Why should the US give up sovereignty?
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I wouldn't worry too much about the UN. Whether the media admits it or not, the UN's failures increasingly denote a downward trend that will eventually, and inevitably, lead to their demise. It's just a matter of time, unless they change their modus operandi.
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