The indefatigable UN-watcher Ann Bayefsky points out in the New York Sun that it really isn’t so surprising that the UN gave a platform to the terrorist-sponsoring, would-be holocaust promoter Ahmadinejad. The event was merely the latest addition to a persistent record of feting the Iranian regime. Even though a year ago the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency found Iran to have violated its Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty obligations, the IAEA head Mohammed el Baradei has persistently obstructed attempts to call Iran to account.

Then there is the burgeoning rapprochement between the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, and Mr. Ahmadinejad. Ms. Arbour traveled to Tehran at the beginning of September to attend a ‘human rights’ conference. She settled in to a front row seat to listen to Mr. Ahmadinejad announce: ‘We are against rule of the non-righteous individuals. … [R]evolutionary Iran aims at global government and a genuine Islamic culture so as to gain a loftier position worldwide.’

… A week prior to Ms. Arbour’s visit, the U.N. handed Iran a leadership role on the planning committee of the next global U.N. anti-racism conference — Durban II — notwithstanding that its president has called extermination of six million Jews during World War II ‘a myth’…Nuclear proliferator Iran is the vice-chairman of the U.N. Disarmament Commission. Treaty violator Iran is a member of the U.N.’s Wider Appreciation of International Law Advisory Committee.

… In 2002 the U.N. Human Rights Commission terminated the post of U.N. investigator into human rights abuses in Iran…. Only four weeks after attempting genocide and the destruction of a U.N. member state, then Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew to Tehran of his own volition, shook hands with Mr. Ahmadinejad, and proclaimed: ‘The international community should count on Iran, not isolate it.’

On and on it goes. Is it any wonder we have a global terror emergency when the world representative body is simply a tyrants’ and terrorists’ glee club? Or to put it another way, how can there be the remotest chance of bringing peace, justice and order to the world when that task is entrusted to a body which perpetrates the very opposite? Or to put it another way still, why don’t the democracies stop pretending that the UN is anything other than an irredeemably corrupt, terror-sponsoring institution and form a United Democratic Nations instead?