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Letter-writer Stephen Plafker makes an excellent point in today’s LA TIMES:
Secretary-General Kofi Annan claims that giving the U.N. a hand in rebuilding Iraq would bring legitimacy to any government that rises from the ruins of battle (April 8). What legitimacy? The U.N. considers the most despotic country as the equal of the freest. [.....] Under Annan’s theory [...] Libya should help decide the kind of government Iraq is to have.
He refers, of course, to the inexplicable fact that Libya is the chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Per Sky News:
Libyan terrorists were responsible for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people, and Gadaffi’s regime has been criticised for violence against its own people.
The U.N. needs to get its own house in order.
