U.N. has no moral authority

It's a beautiful thing to see globalists spinning their mental wheels in frustration.

Witness one Clare Short, former International Development secretary for the U.N., bad-mouthing the news that America is joining with Australia, Japan and India to "coordinate" their own relief efforts. This lefty Brit gal told the BBC:

“I think this initiative from America to set up four countries claiming to coordinate sounds like yet another attempt to undermine the UN when it is the best system we have got and the one that needs building up. ... It is the only body that has the moral authority."

Moral authority? Based, pray tell, on what?

To have moral authority you must be able to show that your actions a) have been sanctioned by a higher moral authority, or b) your outfit must be that highest moral authority, and c) your actions have consistently been of a moral quality that it is recognized that "only" you have that moral authority thing going for you.

The United Nations meets none of the three conditions, especially the last one. In the wake of the Oil-for-Food scandal where billions of dollars were siphoned off by participating nations, private companies, and U.N. personnel (all under the U.N.'s "watchful" eye) you'd have to be crazy to trust another half-billion to this outfit. Which is why President Bush's announcement that the U.S. would join at least three other sane international partners in distributing our own aid is a praise-worthy action.

But Ms. Short was not merely content to laud the impeccable credentials of the United Nations, she hurled a verbal fist against history by declaring:

(She) said the coalition countries did not have good records on responding to international disasters. She said the US was “very bad at coordinating with anyone” and India had its own problems to deal with.

Dear Ms. Short: The U.N. could not coordinate its way out of a wet paper bag. The United States, on the other hand, has been successfully doling out disaster relief for more than a hundred years. You also said the U.N. could only do its job well "if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers." How does it follow that the U.S. does not have moral authority, but the U.N. can't exercise its moral authority without the backing of the U.S.?

Cannot. Follow. Logic. Danger. Overload. Circuits. Fusing!

Now that we're better, let's take note of one final Short remark:

“I don’t know what that is about but it sounds very much, I am afraid, like the US trying to have a separate operation and not work with the rest of the world through the UN system,” she added.

Whatever it takes to get the job done, dear Ms. Short. Whatever it takes.