Originally published on the CGS blog on September 2, 2011.
David Shorr, a program officer at the Stanley Foundation and co-editor of Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide project, wrote a blog on Care 2 yesterday about Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s anti-U.N. bill. David quoted Citizens for Global Solution’s Chief Executive Officer Don Kraus’ apt sports analogy on the common sense of punishing the U.N. as an institution for the actions of some member states saying,
“But the main problem is this: it is an attempt to punish a diplomatic venue for a vote taking place there. Don captured the essential fallacy with the following sports analogy: ‘Funding for the United Nations should not be cut based on the actions of some of its members. It’s like blaming Madison Square Garden for the Knicks losing a game.'”
The text of Ros-Lehtinen’s outrageous bill can be viewed here. Stay tuned for more details we get closer to action being taken on the bill.
