WHILE THE UN PATS ITSELF ON THE BACK... From the UN News Centre:

There has been an estimated 40 per cent decline in armed conflict around the world since the 1990s, with recent research crediting expanded UN peacemaking, peacekeeping and conflict prevention activities as a major factor behind the decline.

Has anyone noticed that during the same period there has been a marked rise in the number of civilians killed by Islamists?

Apparently, this claim is all a part of the UN's claim that, "United Nations’ capacity to deal with the world’s most difficult crises needs to be enhanced."

Maybe what should be enhanced is the UN policing themselves--especially in light of year after year of reports of incidences of rape by UN peacekeepers: in Bosnia, as detailed by Michelle Malkin and elsewhere as detailed by World Net Daily.

As Claudia Rosett wrote at the beginning of this year:

Before the United Nations can save the planet, it needs to clean up its own house. And as scandal after scandal has unfolded over the past decade, from Oil for Food to procurement fraud to peacekeeper rape, the size of that job has become stunningly clear.

And huge.

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