UN EPIPHANY

A morning shot of whiskey

“ Lissa has an imaginary conversation with her younger self about the feel-good collection of useless grandstanders that is the United Nations. It was the "peace-keeping" missions that always got to me. I mean, sure, you may have some well-disciplined and good-intentioned Canucks or Danes along, trying to score points for their motherland in the International Miss Congeniality competition, but their efforts are for naught when the bulk of the "peace-keeping" force is made up of two battalions of the Absurdistani Light Rifles who treat the assignment as a sort of rape-and-petty-theft wanderjahr. Any organization that would put Syria on a Human Rights Commission has, to put it mildly, a fundamental structural flaw. [View from the porch] ”