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Friday, June 17, 2005

Drink Your Big Black Cow

Years of Babel may be coming to an end as the US House has passed a bill that will make US funding of the UN contingent upon performance.

The 221-184 vote, which came despite a Bush administration warning that such a move could actually sabotage reform efforts, was a strong signal from Congress that a policy of persuasion wasn’t enough to straighten out the U.N.

Posted on June 17, 2005 03:47 PM. Permalink