Ornstein Thinks the U.N. is “Feckless.”

Norman J. Ornstein, co-author of The Broken Branch, is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Below is an except from his recent article at the Huffington Post:

I have always been a supporter of the UN and of multilateral institutions. I believe they are necessary and positive forces in the world, even with their obvious failings. It is hard, after all, to justify an organization that puts Libya in charge of its human rights arm. But I have believed that on balance, we need an institution like the UN.

The last year, however, has moved me to a much more hostile and jaundiced view of the efficacy of the United Nations. It started with the oil for food investigation and scandal, and the obvious efforts by many in the UN, the Secretary General included, to cover up or minimize the breathtaking level of scandal. It moved from there to the impotence of the organization, shown once again, as Darfur imploded and we had yet another example of genocide right beneath our noses. Now we have the Middle East.