{"id":1490,"date":"2009-06-16T21:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2009-06-16T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T03:14:08","slug":"problems-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1490","title":{"rendered":"Problems at the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t understand the affection so many people have for the United Nations.  It has its uses &#8212; mainly in giving a floor for countries to spew words, as opposed to bullets, at each other.<\/p>\n<p>But the UN human rights record is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=10290\">atrocious<\/a>, with a bunch of gangsters using the floor to throw praise at Cuba.  And their peace-keepers are notoriously ill-behaved, allowing violence to go on, raping women and, recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/africa\/article6499155.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&#038;attr=797093\">taking food<\/a> from starving kids.<\/p>\n<p>We need to see the UN for what they are not what we wish they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t understand the affection so many people have for the United Nations. It has its uses &#8212; mainly in giving a floor for countries to spew words, as opposed to bullets, at each other. But the UN human rights record is atrocious, with a bunch of gangsters using the floor to throw praise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Problems at the UN<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-o2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}