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Henry Lamb -- The U.N.'s Crisis of Relevance: "The reason for the U.N. Security Council's inaction is now coming into focus. The unfolding 'Oil for Food' scandal implicates both U.N. officials, and officials in the governments of those nations that refused to act. Benon Sevan, once the executive director of the program, was among hundreds of people who received oil vouchers and bribes from Hussein. As late as May, 2002, France assured Hussein that it would use its veto in the Security Council to prevent an invasion of Iraq.
This revelation exposes two fundamental, fatal, flaws that permeate the United Nations: a nation's self-interest will always trump the security interests of other nations; and, corruption will always trump integrity in governments that are empowered by appointment, rather than by the consent of the governed. "