Patronizing America?

June 8th, 2006 at 07:46 Björn Hallberg

In a rare and stunningly honest display of criticism of a member state UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown (a Briton no less) blasted the US over “stealth diplomacy.” Or more precisely the practise of relying on the world body when it suits their whims, and when you can whip up a good war or two with the support of the organization (remember Korea?) but failing to defend the organization against slanderous attacks at home and pretend as if the UN is a de facto enemy and danger to the America and Americans. Well spoken. And to the point, which is why it wasn’t well received in the US. You can always tell when you’ve hit a sore spot. Especially the part about middle America effectively living in ignorance. A colossal understatement I’d say and Malloch Brown is being far too polite. Israel’s spare ambassador, the feigning John Bolton, responded by issuing another one of his not to veiled threats, promising to make this strike back at the UN somehow. Surely by working middle America to a jingoistic frenzy.

As for the “condescending, patronizing tone about the American people” it would seem it was no more condescending than the slur America issues wholesale about what it considers hostile nations and their peoples. And after all, the allegation wasn’t that middle America are just a bunch of intellectually challenged hillbillies (even though this would have had some merit), no, the allegation was that the discourse that reaches the US heartland has been reduced to vicious denigration by people who are probably golf buddies with Bolton and similar slime. So, it would seem that it was really the US which started this spiral of depreciation. And despite their own harsh words, they don’t at all seem comfortable when the going gets tough.

Perhaps the US should tend to its arrears instead, lest Article 19 of the UN Charter could be made to apply.

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