UN: A Morass of Problems

Fire of Liberty
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has a scathing Op/Ed on the Oil-for-Food scandal in yesterday's edition of The New York Post. Have a look:

It certainly looks like nepotism, favoritism and outright willful ignorance of proper management were the rule at the United Nations. Fixing such problems does not happen slowly or easily — and a push for such reform must come from the outside.

This is why the House Committee on International Relations is drafting legislation to help put an end to practices such as this. We will include practical solutions to help achieve better management at the United Nations.

Our effort is only the beginning. The United Nations must get its own arms around its multitude of internal obstacles to accountability and proper management. These problems were always there, I believe — but are only coming to light, under the microscope of Oil-for-Food investigations.

I hope Representative Ros-Lehtinen and her committee can push through these reforms and get the UN to do some internal reforms. We provide to much money to the World and the UN to avoid such scandals. That's the problem with large organizations who don't have any internal policing powers.