Now’s the time to rein in a failed United Nations By Rich Lowry

[mystery-ak]

Now’s the time to rein in a failed United Nations

By Rich Lowry

December 29, 2016 | 8:44pm | Updated

We’ve come a long way from Daniel Patrick Moynihan excoriating the United Nations’ 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution in one of the finer exhibits of righteous indignation in the history of American speechifying.

The Obama administration acceded to — and, reportedly, assisted behind the scenes — a less notorious but still noxious Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements. By the administration’s lights, the action is clever — it will be extremely difficult to reverse and will increase Israel’s international isolation.

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[bigheadfred]

Because nothing involving the United Nations is clean or straightforward, it’s hard to even know how much the United States pays in total into the UN system. But it’s probably around $8 billion a year.

There is some money well spent.

Reminds me of the old joke about the guy that drops some change down the hole in the outhouse.

[Hondo69]

We need to stop funding terrorism.