Who Needs It?

Now that the city of Englewood, N.J. has rightly denied a spot to Moammar Gaddafi to pitch his tent, I wonder where he'll go?

Zooming out on the whole U.N. thing, I wonder if it's time for us to rethink hosting the U.N. in our country? How is it that we benefit from that anyway? Every time there's a big meeting, we have to allow all kinds of thugs, punks and outright enemies into the country. Most of the time, these guys are here to accuse, insult and otherwise thumb their nose at us anyway. This Gaddafi visit just happens to be fresh on the heels of his welcome home victory party for the Lockerbie bomber, but here he comes.

Maybe, it used to be prestigious for us to have the world come to New York. But that was back when the U.N. meant something, even to us.

Wouldn't it be fun for someone like Iran to host? Then, every time there was a big meeting, the free and decadent West would have all manner of diplomats, ambassadors and staff descending on their city with diplomatic immunity and causing them all kinds of social headaches. We could insult their leadership right in the midst of their citizenry. The world press could run all over town, exposing all sorts government abuses. This would be neat to do in North Korea and Libya too.

Yup. Time to party somewhere else, and let "whomever" deal with the cleanup every time.

And as far as Gaddafi and his tent for this meeting, well I think that the Scottish embassy lawn probably has more than enough room. Let him go there.