Absur-ban 2

Several E.U. delegations walk out of the Durban II conference because the Iranian President spewed antisemitism from the podium, he later accuses Israel of being a "racist" government while being on the receiving end of the same charge from protesters dressed as clowns. If that isn't a circus, I don't know what is.

Why go through the trouble of attending and walking out? Every government knew Durban 2 would be an Israel bash-fest, a conference on racism though anything but "anti". Delusional France evidently hoped the muddle of Middle-Eastern theocracies, African dictatorships and world rejects would suddenly have a mass epiphany. In the same fashion of the Maginot line unwarranted French flights of fancy again crash with a loud thud to the sound of thunderous ridicule.

Little do Ban Ki Moon's attempt at conciliation achieve. His performance at the conference should be the UN's swan song, as an organization hijacked through its own weaknesses and delusions. When you let powers extraneous to your principles become majority in your own organs, don't be surprised when your best members desert you.

So let Ban Ki Moon keep his Qaddafi, Ahmadinejad,Chavez and Bashir. We have the G8, and that suffices. Wouldn't hurt kicking Russia out of it, either.

Update: Dr Roy is on the same wavelength, wondering why EU delegations attended in the first place