The United Nations' Crisis of Moral Legitimacy

The Diplomad, a blog by employees of the U.S. State Department, on the "United Nations -- "the thirty-year single malt of bureaucracies" -- and why we should regard it as "a massive, expensive hoax that needs to be ended once and for all."

Having actually worked for and with the U.N., they're entitled to make their case. Meanwhile:

• AP reports "The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape." Prompting Patrick Spero to wonder: "why is CNN reporting on it now when the story broke in May?" (via Instapundit).

• Staff revolt gathers pace at UN Times Online, Nov. 20, 2004.

• Fire Kofi, by the editors of National Review Online. Nov. 24, 2004.

Together with the U.N. Oil for Food scandal, I'm continually mystified by the contensions of those who contend that all manner of things will be well if the Bush Administration only learns to "work with the U.N."

Update: Sen. Norm Coleman of the Foreign Relations Committee says Kofi Annan must go.