February 05, 2003

DISARM THE DISARMERS: To give

DISARM THE DISARMERS: To give you an idea of just what a joke the United Nations has become, the rotating chairmanship of the UN Conference on Disarmament will be taken over, on March 17, by... Iraq! This follows last month's ascension of Libya to the chairmanship of the UN's Human Rights Commission; since the chairmanship rotates alphabetically among UN members, Iraq will be preceded in the role by, you guessed it, Iran.
It's enough of an embarrassment that Iraq is even still a member of the UN, though I do believe the US and whoever else is in the coalition should circle March 17 on their calendars, so that the disarmed regime in power at that point may take its rightful place in the General Assembly and on the disarmament committee.
In the meantime, putting Iraq in charge of worldwide disarmament would make about as much sense as making the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers commissioner of baseball. Oh, wait...

Posted by Stephen Silver at February 5, 2003 04:18 AM
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