UN Bureaucrats Would Have More Moral Authority If They Sobered Up

This is one of the litmus tests for liberalism: if you think the United Nations has more moral authority than the United States, you are a liberal. That thought was prompted by this brief AP story, which I’m guessing will not see the light of day in a lot of newspapers:

Ambassador Joseph M. Torsella, who represents the U.S. on the U.N.’s budget committee, said in remarks Monday that the tense process of negotiating the world body’s annual budget is made more complicated by the number of diplomats who turn up drunk.

The U.N. budget is finalized in December, when holiday parties apparently lead to some revelry spilling over into budget negotiations.

Torsella said the U.S. is making “the modest proposal that the negotiating rooms should in future be an inebriation-free zone.”

Some tipsy negotiating partners have left the U.S. “truly grateful for the strategic opportunities,” he said.

But Torsella said the committee should “save the champagne for toasting the successful end of the session.”

Sure, let’s turn over our sovereignty to these people–great idea!

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