Justus For All

Scotsman.com:

United States President George Bush was tonight accused of trying to undermine the United Nations by setting up a rival coalition to coordinate relief following the Asian tsunami disaster.

The president has announced that the US, Japan, India and Australia would coordinate the world’s response.

Certainly I hope our President isn’t trying to undermine the U.N. After all, they are doing just fine with that on their own and it would be a waste of time for him to devote any energy to that whatsoever.

I expect that the President actually wants to see the devastated people of South-East Asia get some help (I know, this is heresy, I forgot for a moment that he is the evil chimp overlord who wants to push grannies downstairs.)

This bit of the article is quite humorous:

“Only really the UN can do that job,” she told BBC Radio Four’s PM programme.

“It is the only body that has the moral authority. But it can only do it well if it is backed up by the authority of the great powers.”

Now, leaving aside the highly questionable moral authority of the U.N., since when does it take a huge amount of moral authority to justify helping people that have been hit by a natural disaster?