Political agreement in Washington may be in short supply, but bipartisan consensus does exist. Both Republicans and Democrats increasingly reject U.S. military combat deployments. As debt skyrockets, tolerance for waste plummets. Both party bases prefer Washington spends money domestically rather than abroad.

Bipartisan financial propriety does not extend to the United Nations. Too often, left-wingers embrace the UN as a means to pay homage to the organization’s lofty principles absent understanding of the corruption and mismanagement that permeates the organization. Few large bureaucracies are immune to waste, fraud, and abuse, but the U.N.’s problem is successive secretaries-general have preferred to use their perch for perks and travel than to manage and reform.