A devil's brew at the UN -
Jewish World Review ^ | December 14, 2004 | Mort Zuckerman
 

A devil's brew at the UN -

Sixty years ago, the signing of the United Nations charter in San Francisco was a beacon of hope to a world still laid low by the ravages of World War II. The U.N.'s agencies, like UNICEF, have done lots of noble work since then, and its blue-helmeted peacekeepers have been, and remain, essential guardians of humanity in areas of conflict.

Yet today the prestige of the U.N. is at a record low, mired in a monstrous scandal in which a vital humanitarian cause seems to have been perverted into a front for larceny on a dizzying scale. The U.N.'s oil-for-food program may turn out to be the largest financial scandal in history, involving a fraud of some $21 billion...
 

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