I'M WAITINGThere appears to be no hurry among United Nations members to start some sort of even a modest clean-up of the mess among which they have, plainly, been living for some years now.
Months go by without any indication that projected changes be made to bring about some semblance of propriety in the routine management of the organization. It has fallen far short of expectations in many ways. True enough, some disregard for such petty rules set up years ago which now seem to some as being irksome, might well be modified to suit today's needs.
Charges, however, which can be called “outstanding” against some UN officials are monumental in size, complex in many inter-social and, inter-social ways and serious enough in the public mind to, if untended, to bring about an end of the U.N. Concept.
The most glaring fault might well be gross mismanagement of funds associated with the “Food For Oil” program in Iraq. It has all making of an old-fashioned stinker scandals of our old political scams during the days of ward heel crooks and politicians who knew not the word “truth”. We like to believe that we put a stop to such schemes by subtle use of punishment in various forms. To make this entire U.N. scene more acceptable, we need to revive some of the former ways of making politicians look bad.
A widely method used o be to stop voting for them, but you quickly walk around that one by pointing out that we don't vote for U. N. No,of course not, but we do have public servants of our own. What's wrong with letting our own people know we expect them to rev up some their vacuums, get busy with some stiff brooms and huff-and-puff in the sleek presence of these self-appointed potentates of the U.N. other world. The longer we let loose leaders look lousy to the average world citizen, the tougher it is for all of us to maintain stability in concepts of mutual understanding and respect.
Now that cartoonists have been tagged so unfairly, we must avoid pointing out how easy it is to show a faltering, falling, failing United Nations by simply reversing the first set of the letters “i” and “t”.
A.L.M. February 13, 2006 [c392wds]
