Malloch Brown on Fox News Sunday (unbelievable)

There were two exchanges between Chris Wallace and Malloch Brown(Annan Chief of Staff) that were nothing less than incredible.

WALLACE: But why over the last few weeks? The fact is, in Cambodia (search), in the early 1990s, there were allegations of this, and a top U.N. official said at the time, "Boys will be boys."
This isn't a recent incident. This has been going on for more than a decade. Why are you sending officials out in recent weeks saying this will not be tolerated?

MALLOCH BROWN: Because it's happened in some missions, and when it happened in Cambodia, it was attacked there, and we tried to address it.

But I think the problem is, we are dealing with something which in some ways is as old as soldiering itself. And the difference is that the U.S. military or my own military, the British military, have in recent decades invested a huge amount of leadership and resources to break these old habits of occupying military groups, to make them realize that this abuse of women in the community is utterly unacceptable.

In our case, our very underfunded peacekeeping missions, with soldiers stitched together from Bangladesh, Jordan, many other different countries, all under their own different commands and without the resources to give them the other recreational options, that the standards of behavior have not been modernized in the same way that has happened with the American or the British military, and we've now got to tackle that.

And the governments who support us in the Security Council have to help us do it by improving the lines of command and putting the resources in it to give soldiers other options.

WALLACE: Let me ask you about one last area. And as you pointed out, I think a lot of Americans don't have ideological feelings about the United Nations, and I agree with you that they believe in the ideals on which it was formed in the 1940s as well. But they've come to the conclusion that it's useless. They look at what happened in Rwanda (search), where a genocide takes place and yet U.N. peacekeepers pull out. They look at what's happening in Darfur (search)now, and they ask, why doesn't the U.N. stop the killing?

MALLOCH BROWN: Well, look, take both those cases, you know, we're running at the moment more than a dozen peacekeeping missions in the world. They're all terribly overstretched. The total cost per year, the money we're allowed for running that, is less than a week or so of the U.S. costs of its military actions in Iraq.
This is underfunded. There's an absence of political will.

Ok, let's get this straight. Malloch Brown is saying that the rape of thousands of young people in the Congo spanning years is the result of a lack of resources to give them"other recreational options"??? And the opinion of many that the UN is worthless because of total ineffectiveness is primarily due to lack of funding????

After this interview, if you still don't believe the UN is bloated, corrupt, misguided and irrelevent, please seek professional help immediately, you are suffering from severe and likely irreversible naivity.