Claudia Rosett for U.N. Ambassador

Her column in today’s WSJ is a must-read. In a sea of mediocre journalism, Claudia Rosett is two giants–the investigative gadfly who exposed UNSCAM and the big media’s only consistent teller of the hideous truth about North Korea. In her column today, she brings both issues to their inevitable intersection in the moral corruption beneath the U.N.’s rotten foundation. Nowhere is that moral corruption more evident than in the case of its unforgiveable silence about North Korea–precisely the kind of horror the U.N. was founded to prevent. Should one expect better from any organization with no membership standards? Around what common values can nations unite if any street thug can shoot his way to power, appoint a U.N. ambassador, wait patiently for a seat on its Human Rights Committee or National Security Council, and eventually proclaim himself a global moral authority?

Mrs. Rosett would make a fine successor to John Negroponte.