Oxymoronic

According to Newsmax:

• The U.S. taxpayer annually gives the U.N. system over $5.3 billion.
• At least $2.24 million of this money goes to the U.N. Disarmament Commission.
• At least $18.28 million of this money goes to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights which provides staffing and logistical support to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
• Less than half (46 percent) of the countries voting in the General Assembly are democracies accountable to their citizens.

I will concede that it is important that we are involved in this political body, for numerous reasons. However, I believe we should attach some basic stipulations to our funding, one of which is that Iran should have nothing to do with the governance of disarmament; and neither should Syria. Perhaps we could word it as "there can never be foxes put in charge of hen houses," or something like that.

Unfortunately, and incredibly, the U.N. Disarmament Commission re-elected Iran as its vice-chair this week and named Syria as its secretary. This, despite the fact that the U.N. Security Council itself has declared that Iran has violated the non-proliferation resolutions the Disarmament Commission is charged to promote.