UN's biggest failure - Genocide, not oil

Anyone who really, sincerely cares about the poor and oppressed in the world should be urging President Bush to cut all funding from the U.N., withdraw from the organization, and kick them out of New York so we can build a park with the land. The U.N. under Kofi Annan has been the worst failure the world has seen in recent years, as Kenneth Cain in his WSJ editorial:

A debate currently rages about whether Kofi Annan enjoys the moral authority to lead the United Nations because the Oil for Food scandal happened under his command. That debate is 10 years too late and addresses the wrong subject. The salient indictment of Mr. Annan's leadership is lethal cowardice, not corruption; the evidence is genocide, not oil.

They even put the criminal masterminds behind Enron to shame. Sometimes it helps to get a firsthand account on the ground of what really happens...the things the newsmedia don't show us. , the sites of some of the most horrible war crimes and atrocities ever to plague the earth:

Before my recent return, the last time I was in Rwanda was 10 years ago; I was counting skulls. A young U.N. human-rights officer, I was tasked with collecting evidence for the U.N.'s forthcoming war-crimes tribunal after the successful genocide of Rwanda's Tutsi minority by Hutu militias in 1994. We were looking for the mass graves of mass murder. We found them in churches, schools, gardens, latrines--anywhere Tutsis had gathered seeking protection or their killers had dumped their bodies, dismembered and entangled, like life-size rag dolls. Some 800,000 bodies rotted in the African sun.

But it isn't just the stench of death I remember so vividly; the odor of betrayal also hung heavily in the Rwandan air. This was not a genocide in which the U.N. failed to intervene; most of the U.N.'s armed troops evacuated after the first two weeks of massacres, abandoning vulnerable civilians to their fate, which included, literally, the worst things in the world a human being can do to another human being.

Evil still exists in the world today more than ever, and that evil is not one of intollerance among good people, but of murderous hatred and indifferent extermination of entire peoples, as well as the deliberate and targeted destruction of the values, ideas, and people that have made our great country the strong and prosperous superpower it is today. Yet this grand organization known as the United Nations is more concerned with it's public image and "neutrality" than with doing good in the world. Yes, I know there are a few truely good U.N. programs. These programs can and should continue, but should be separated from the dying U.N. and continue to be run by the people who are actively doing good in the world instead of merely talking about it.