Chelsea To Mom And Dad: The United Nations Sucks

Revelations from the latest release of Hillary Clinton’s emails are useful for more than just determining how unqualified she is to handle affairs of state or whether there is a Benghazi smoking gun. We can also glean an insider’s view of just how incompetent the United Nations (UN) has been at helping developing countries recover from disaster—in this case, Haiti after the devastating earthquake of 2010.

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Chelsea Clinton, now vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, had visited Haiti in 2010 to review the development programs the foundation was supporting under the aegis of the UN’s disaster relief mandate. What she saw of the UN’s role clearly horrified her. According to her post-visit memo emailed to her mother and father (who happened at the time to be the secretary of state and the UN special envoy, respectively), “The incompetence is mind-numbing.” That would be the Chelsea Clinton who was reared by two of the UN’s biggest fans. Bill and Hillary Clinton embrace a cardinal rule in their foreign policy that international organizations must be the default leaders for whatever needs doing around the world—whether or not the Clintons have always observe the rule. Deference to the leading institutions of cosmopolitanism was cool in Democratic circles long before President Obama, and the Clintons embody this principle. After all, Bill Clinton was willing to humble himself before the UN’s archenemy, Sen. Jesse Helms, and do whatever was necessary to get him to release U.S. payments to the UN that were in arrears. More...

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