Is anyone actually surprised by reports that two UN soldiers were photographed saluting the coffins of Hezbollah militants?
If only the UN could honestly say this kind of behavior were rare. The fact is the UN can’t even say its terrorist sympathies are rarely caught on tape. In 2004, the Israeli military snapped a photo of a terrorist loading a missile onto a UN ambulance. There is also video footage from a year later that shows terrorists using a UN ambulance to flee a gunfight. UN soldiers and staff are not merely engaged in symbolic gestures. They’re complicit as well. And the world wonders why the United States doesn’t view the UN with warm and fuzzy feelings, why the presence of UN in the Middle East doesn’t reassure U.S. forces so much as inspire them to look over their shoulders.
