It's All About Money At The U.N.

On Tuesday, Kofi answered four questions after the second interim Volcker report supposedly cleared him of wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal. Two were about his son, one was about whether he'd quit, and one was about Section 2.2 funds.

I glossed over that last one when I posted earlier, but it's been stuck in my craw (wherever that is) ever since. What it boils down to is this: The U.N. took money that was supposed to be used for humanitarian relief for Iraqi civilians under the heel of Saddam, and gave it to the familes of U.N. employees who were killed while on duty in Iraq.

The UN calls itself a humanitarian agency, but, to paraphrase the famous annonymous radio reporter on the scene when the Hindenberg burned and a little old lady who used to talk about Wendy's hamburgers, where's the humanity? What did the poor malnourished Iraqis do to deserve the reallocation of funds away from them? Was there no fat cat fund anywhere in the entire UN purse that could have tapped for the relatives of the dead UN employees? Or was it just easier and more greed-fulfilling to take oil-for-food money?

This episode is a good slice of what's wrong with the UN, laid out on a sterile plate for all to see. And it's not too appetizing.