[Overpaid Slacker]

"I bet you guys think the Catholic Church is..."

You lose. Now how about you stop trying to make us into "monsters" by this old, tired demonizing of those whom you oppose (do you have only THAT arrow in your quiver?), and deal with the arguments presented. The UN has no moral authority to do its "job" around the world and has shown absolutely no desire to straighten itself out and purge itself of corruption, no matter how often Kofi has said it's time for "actions not words" to clean up the UN.

Though Kofi's serial pledges to do better have worked as an extreme soporific, thoroughly mollifying the Left, who would rather flat-out ignore what's wrong with the UN, or excuse it in a "nobody's perfect" apologia such as your own, than take action to fix the problems.

Why no liberal/feminist screams of outrage about young girls being raped or forced into prostitution by the UN? B/c it's just a "problem" and everybody's got them?

The UN UNmade itself into what it's become today, including having a dirtbag like Mohamed alBaradei release false information on the eve of a Presidential election with the hopes of influencing the outcome of such election, having Kofi Annan sit on a report explict about one of his senior people sexually harassing a woman, calling the charges "unfounded" in spite of such report, having Kojo Annan complicit in the oil-for-fraud scandal at one of the entities responsible for auditing Hussein's compliance with the rules, etc. etc. etc. These things are matters of public record, they're facts. We Think, you IGNORE and DISSEMBLE.

JP