It is like a clown-car pulls up in front of an ugly glass building on the East River and the freaks all pile out, who then then run to the podium.Since the time of Castro's first appearance, the UN has been a giant glazed circus tent filled with bad acts, bad actors and little talent. m/r
The Rosett Report » Moment of Truth at the UN General Assembly
By Claudia Rosett On September 28, 2013
You might suppose that the United Nations General Assembly in New York is done with its opening exertions for 2013, now that the new UN celebrity, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, has flown home to help his boss, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, tend to such projects as — how has Rouhani described it? — ”our peaceful nuclear energy program” and “my government’s readiness to help facilitate dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition.” (Quoting here from the Sept. 19 Washing Post op-ed [1]with which Rouhani’s public relations team prepared the ground for his arrival on the UN main stage).
For sure, it was an action-packed week at UN headquarters. Even beyond the round-the-clock news of Rouhani — speaking, snubbing, giving interviews, taking phone calls — there were such episodes as the UN General Assembly inviting the Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud Abbas to take a seat, for the first time, in the onstage beige chair [2] reserved for heads of state (part of the GA’s continuing effort to help the PA do an end run around the Palestinian promises in the Oslo Accords). There was the usual appearance by Zimbabwe’s longtime despot, Robert Mugabe, who at age 89 did a remarkably spry job of praising the UN and denouncing the U.S., Britain and their allies (“Shame, shame, shame [3].”). There was the not entirely surprising non-appearance of Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir, who had planned to attend (this plan was surprising, given that Bashir is under indictment by the International Criminal Court for his role in Sudan’s genocide). Instead, Bashir sent Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Ahmed Karti, who spent the first part of his speech to the GA [4] denouncing the U.S., which he said had denied Bashir a visa to attend the General Assembly (let us note, whatever one’s criticisms of the State Department, at least they got that much right). On the heels of all this, the UN Security Council finally eked out a “Toothless and Unfocused [5]” resolution on Syria, or at least on Syria’s chemical weapons.
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