Dollars for Dictators & Terror

I don't know how liberals can continue to have faith in the UN to help people in Darfur and others in need elsewhere through police action.

The UN can not even police itself.

And starving people are way down on the UN's list of priorities.

And there is evidence the UN's actions have undermined US national security and set back efforts to stop nuclear and WMD proliferation. UN Oil for Food money may have ended up funding terrorists. Billions for terror, not food and medicine for Iraqi children.

Fresh from its enormous fraud in the Iraq Oil for Food program, now we find the UN has been bankrolling North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il's nukes, not to mention his personal proclivity for caviar and cognac and "joy brigades", while millions of his people starve to death. Tribune editorial here.

The US instituted sanctions after the December nuke test, which have influenced the dictator to come to the table and allow the IAEA into the country (another UN entity). The US has taken the right tack here, not waiting for the UN but working with North Korea's neighbors to put the pressure on.