The UN Admits its Incompetence

FOX News reports that in the wake of the Oil for Food Program the UN has declared itself incompetent to handle any such enterprises in the future.

UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette said the
United Nations was unprepared for the mammoth task of providing humanitarian relief for 24 million Iraqis and hoped it would never be given a job like the oil-for-food program again.

She said the responsibility was the equivalent of trying to oversee the entire import and export of goods for a medium-size country....

Speaking at a press conference, Frechette said:

"Personally, I hope to God we never get another oil-for-food program or anything approaching that kind of responsibility, which was tantamount to trying to oversee the entire import-export regime of a country of 24 million people, which was a tall order."

"If ever, God forbid, we were to be given that kind of responsibility in the future, we certainly would go about it differently and we certainly would apply the lessons that we are learning from the exhaustive investigations that are going on at the moment."

So, let's see now. If the UN is ineffective as peacekeepers; if it is incompetent to administer aid programs; if it cannot monitor international agreements; and if it is an inadequate forum for the resolution of international disputes, then what the hell is it good for? Some serious and radical rethinking of the entire concept of collective security is in order.