Sort of Like 'Oil For Food'--Only Without the Oil or the, Er, Food

The New Criterion reports on the latest instance of shameless corruption at the UN:

The headline on Fox News encapsulated the essence of the story: “U.N.’s Ballooning $732 Million Haiti Peacekeeping Budget Goes Mostly to Its Own Personnel.” Did anyone really expect otherwise? The amazing thing about the United Nations is that this sinkhole of corruption has managed to retain any public credibility whatsoever. Consider: “The United Nations has quietly upped this year’s peacekeeping budget for earthquake-shattered Haiti to $732.4 million, with two-thirds of that amount going for the salary, perks, and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island.” The official term for this is BAUUN: “business as usual at the U.N.”

Well, on the plus side, at least the UN kleptocrats "peacekeepers" don't appear to be raping any Haitians.