The Rosett Report » Awaiting Susan Rice at the UN

Word is out that President-elect Obama will nominate his close adviser, Susan Rice, as ambassador to the UN, and dignify both the institution and Rice by exalting the post to cabinet rank.

This is a trainwreck waiting to happen — the main question being whether, when the train goes off the rails, Rice will be trying to drive the UN engine, or hanging on for dear life to the caboose. Oh — and the other big question being just how much a bigger role for the UN will cost the average American, not only in terms of money tossed down the UN spiderholes, but also in terms of lives endangered, damage to the American economy, freedom curtailed, and support to those who would inflict on the U.S. the kind of carnage we have just witnessed in Bombay.
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She’ll be looking at peacekeeping missions that have not only failed to deliver peace, but which have failed for years now to eliminate an unfortunate tendency by some of the UN peacekeeping troops to rape minors among some of the populations they are sent to protect. She’ll be fielding the demands of assorted jackal governments and UN officials that the U.S. in the name of ”climate change” (and UN-politicized “science”) embrace UN-mandated controls and restrictions that could beggar a great many U.S. citizens, while transferring what’s left of American wealth to assorted UN cronies and despotic governments.

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