“[The United Nations] is living through the worst moment of its already forthcoming 60 years. It pales, it pants, it feigns, but it does not work…For the time being, there will be no valid, real and useful reform to the United Nations.”– Felipe Perez Roque, foreign affairs minister of Cuba, speaking at the United Nations today.

“The U.N. will go out with a whimper rather than a bang. Indeed, millions have already shrugged, tuned out, and turned the channel on it.”–Victor Davis Hanson, Wall Street Journal, September 23.

Hanson’s influential writings have already earned him face time with Cheney. Is Castro next?