Why We Need International Institutions

Recently, our incomprehensible bluster monkey at the U.N. (John Bolton) nearly developed an extra head with which to scream when the deputy secretary general Mark Malloch Brown, in a moment of truthful pique, implied that Bolton’s UN posturing was merely a larger domestic political ploy to attract a more conservative and isolationist Republican base. Well, duh… Of course it is a Republican ploy, unfortunately the denuding of the UN has the most direct impact on our international security of any budgetary restraint, or expenditure. International institutions provide potentially “neutral” policing bodies, provide a global moral imperative, provide no single country or organization (Halliburton, anyone?) a financial gain after action (presumably), provide a non-national solution to the non-national problem of terrorism, and in the case of the UN they provide balanced development, diplomacy, and defensive capabilities.

… yes but isn’t going it alone is so much fun…..

For a good review of the UN situation (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100765.html )