Halloween Comes Early at the UN

Any respect I had for the United Nations was forever dashed when terrorist FREAKS and narcissistic GEEKS masquerading as wise world leaders with legitimate agendas descended on New York this week.

The Three Stooges, as portrayed by Libya's Gaddafi, Iran's Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Chavez were remarkable as 21st Century adaptations of Moe, Larry and Curly respectively. The President of the United States was spot-on as Narcissus, the proud and unfeeling, self-absorbed son of a god from Greek mythology.

The TRICKS were in abundance. A surprise revelation that Iran indeed had a secret Iranian nuclear enrichment plant, lavish praise heaped upon the President by the world's worst dictators and terrorists, and an over-limit, self-promoting spiel by Narcissus trumped only by a 96-minute venomous, rambling, and often incoherent diatribe courtesy of Moe. (It was reported that over an hour into the rant his translator shouted that he ”just couldn’t take it any more,” on the live microphone and collapsed.)

The rare TREATS presented themselves when respectable diplomats refused to dignify the remarks of Ahmadinejad and walked out. Of particular import was the response of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Ahmadinejad's rant against Israel:

"To those who refused to come and to those who left in protest, I commend you," he said. "But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?"

He continued:

"Perhaps some of you think this man and his odious regime only threaten the Jews. Well, if you think that, you are wrong, dead wrong. What starts as attacks on Jews always ends up engulfing others. ... This regime embodies the extremes of Islamic fundamentalism."

Halloween might come but once a year but it is pure folly to allow the deadly charade of regarding these dictators and terrorists as anything but what they are.  And we must acknowledge that something is seriously amiss when our President is held in such high regard by such a cadre of disreputable thugs.