So wild has New York become that the Obama administration is launching an abstinence campaign . . . for UN diplomats.
High-level officials have been showing up to budget meetings “falling-down drunk,” according to Agence France-Presse, making it difficult to run key UN negotiations.
Leave it to Uncle Sam to spoil the party.
“There has always been a good and responsible tradition of a bit of alcohol improving a negotiation,” says Joseph Torsella, a deputy US ambassador to the United Nations. “We make the modest proposal that the negotiation rooms should in [the] future be an inebriation-free zone.”
That’s a terrible idea. It’s bad enough what these UN officials do while drunk to waste our tax dollars. Does anyone think we’d get better value and better policy if we made the UN do its work sober?
Inaction and torpor at the United Nations are usually a blessing for us. So give the Russians their vodka and pour the Cubans some rum. Even better, turn the General Assembly into an opium den and let the delegates spend their days in slumber, dreaming of resolutions past.
But please, Mr. President — for the good of America, let the UN stay plastered.