The U.N. has been at best inefficient and at worst downright corrupt since its founding 65 years ago. Recently, sadly, it confirmed anew that it is not at all the force for international peace and stability that it has long claimed to be.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not only permitted to attend a U.N. meeting on “nuclear nonproliferation” this week, but he was given an opportunity to address the delegates who came from 189 countries to attend the meeting in New York.
There, he predictably denied the well-documented fact that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons. He assured listeners that Iran has only peaceful, energy-producing aims for its nuclear program.
Not only does that fly in the face of the facts, but it certainly does not square with Ahmadinejad’s stated desire to wipe the nation of Israel off the map.
If the U.N. had the truly noble aims it purports to have, a person who leads a terrorism-sponsoring nation such as Iran and who makes such outrageous remarks would never be provided an honored speaking role. It says a great deal — and none of it good — about the U.N. that it conferred a false, undeserved legitimacy on Ahmadinejad.