PULL KOFI, PULL!
The New York Times has recently allowed advertising—mostly from nonprofits—to be placed in the lower right corner of its hallowed Op-Ed spread. The above visual is from an ad for dontshutdowntheUN.org. The copy reads: "Unless leadership is provided to reconcile differences through respectful diplomacy and compromise, there is a risk of a shutdown of certain UN operations and a serious breach in international relations..."Gosh, that sounds deadly serious. What better way to illustrate such a potentially calamitous development then with a doofy-ass tug-of-war stock photo?
posted by copyranter @ 2:50 PM
4 Comments:
I don't know - ropeburn is a crisis in my book.
So stupid. How often can 100 FRIENDS agree on something as stupid as where to have a barbecue picnic?
Now imagine 100+ self-serving, power-drunk cleptos, murderers, empire-builders and old-fashioned politicos 'trying' to build a better world. The UN is doomed.
Why exactly am I an idiot?
Because I am identifying the UN as the League of Nations sequel that it is?
The Cold War was the singular reason the UN functioned at all for its first forty years -- it was essentially a bi-party system. It's since denegrated into a fractured political state resembling post-war Italy: scores of small factions that accomplish nothing other than bickering, in-fighting and showmanship.
Any body that allows Saudi Arabia or Iran to head its human rights committee isn't worth a shit.
The UN is a great idea gone terribly wrong.
Looking at the picture it appears to present a rift between North and South rather than Near-East and West, which better portrays the New World Order of the 60s/70s than modern day. But maybe that also explains the clothing.
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