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This from the FT - an interview with the (British) Deputy Secretary General of the UN, Mark Malloch Brown, a man who speaks in the true terror appeasing voice of the FCO:
It’s not helpful for it again to appear to be the team that led on Iraq or even on Afghanistan. It’s not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hizbollah employs terrorist tactics, it is an organisation however whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda.
You can hear it now, can't you? "It is not helpful to couch our discussions with Herr Hitler in the language of international conquest. The Chancellor employs aggressive tactics, but Germany has a historic presence in the Rheinland, Sudetenland and Poland. We need to look at events from Herr Hitler's point of view, and reach a satisfactory accomodation with his desires, which spring from German history".
Few things more worthwhile have happened in recent years than the utter humiliation of the UN and its terror-appeasing functionaries such as Malloch Brown.
MessageSpace
You may consider the UN to have been humiliated, but it will have gone right over the heads of most folk, including Annan & Malloch Brown.
The media have ensured that the world has remained largely ignorant of the financial scandals of the bureaucracy & the sex scandals of its "peacekeepers".
A commenter on my blog has been spouting this same nonsense. He says it isn't helpful to use words like 'evil' when describing groups like Hizbollah. Come to think of it, his comments seem like a paraphrase of the quote you've posted.
When we refuse to use the words that most accurately reflect the truth -- that isn't helpful. It's delusional.