UN = lame duck

Equating the UN to lame ducks is a massive insult to ducks worldwide. When will the international community figure out that it is time to put this institution out of it's misery?

The latest example of the UN's impotence came as North Korea launched it's long anticipated missile. The UN did what it does best - debated and dithered. Meanwhile it is telling that Hugo Chavez endorsed the launch. Kim Jong Il is every bit as much of a fruitcake as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The difference is that North Korea has the technology to back up the whacko aspirations of it's leader.

The world became a more dangerous place this weekend. The only positive effect was to harden Obi-Wan's military rhetoric but it is unlikely that his current pronouncements have any more meaning than any of the nonsense he has spouted for the last 6 months.