{"id":21658,"date":"2006-04-03T04:56:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T08:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:21:57","slug":"the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.N. is Really Helpful (Not)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Peter Brookes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Press\/Commentary\/ed032706a.cfm\">op-ed<\/a> distributed by the Heritage Foundation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A blossoming Sino-Russian romance is undercutting U.S. global interests on an unprecedented scale. Indeed, Russia and China seem to have their eyes on restraining European and Japanese power, too. Start with the United Nations, where Russia and China are hampering U.S.- and European Union-led efforts to address Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. It&#8217;s been weeks since the Security Council got official notice that Iran had violated its nonproliferation promises &#8212; yet the U.N. body has yet to manage to even condemn Tehran&#8217;s actions, much less impose economic sanctions.No surprise: Both Moscow and Beijing have way too much at stake to bully their buddy, Tehran. China has billions invested in Iran&#8217;s oil\/gas fields; Russia hopes to make its own billions by reprocessing Iranian reactor fuel. And both sell millions in advanced weapons to Iran&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tell me again: Why are we in still in the U.N.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Peter Brookes op-ed distributed by the Heritage Foundation: A blossoming Sino-Russian romance is undercutting U.S. global interests on an unprecedented scale. Indeed, Russia and China seem to have their eyes on restraining European and Japanese power, too. Start with the United Nations, where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[77],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The U.N. is Really Helpful (Not) - The National Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amy Ridenour\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Amy Ridenour\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#\/schema\/person\/c350a1a4a34cfa2a3432c342e9611a47\"},\"headline\":\"The U.N. is Really Helpful (Not)\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-04-03T08:56:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-10-04T20:21:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/\"},\"wordCount\":166,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"ConservativeBlog.org\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2006\/04\/03\/the-u-n-is-really-helpful-not\/\",\"name\":\"The U.N. is Really Helpful (Not) - 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