Gya: Swoof! swoof! too much Bartica ganja

Something has to account for the idiocy of this editorial.

Perhaps the greatest long-term damage done by President George Bush and his neo-conservative advisers in the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq is the unwelcome precedent it has set for the sidelining of the United Nations. Indeed it had been clear for some time that Messrs Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and their colleagues see the United Nations more as an irritant and a constraint than as an integral part of American foreign policy. In the circumstances, it is worth looking back briefly.
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Inevitably, with a body of this size and complexity, changes will take time as there are so many interests to be consulted. It is undoubtedly true that serious criticisms can be made of the United Nations and its many subsidiary organs and the vast international bureaucracy it has spawned. But surely a government with any sense of history should be on the side of the United Nations, should wish to change and improve it rather than diminish or destroy it.

A severely weakened or discredited United Nations would be President Bush’s most disastrous legacy.

Read the rest if you want. I won't even present any arguments to support my claim that the editorial is idiotic. Bad form, yeah, I know. But why bother? Meantime, I live in hope that Caribbean editorial page writers will actually begin to think critically.