Claudia Rossett says that President Bush should spoil Kofi's party:

When we have a clean, efficient U.N. — if we ever do — there may come a time for pleasant diplomatic fictions on the General Assembly floor. But right now, to the extent we depend on the U.N. for anything of importance in world affairs, it is not only U.S. tax dollars at stake, but U.S. security. If there is anything the U.S. has done to earn the deep disrespect of the U.N. and its more hostile members over the years, it is that America has too long played the chump. American taxpayers foot the lion's share of the bills. The U.S. provides housing for the U.N. atop one of the fanciest patches of real estate in the country, and is now offering to finance the renovation of U.N. headquarters on terms sweeter than most hard-working Americans could dream of. We put up with anti-American resolutions and declarations by a U.N. which, according to a new website — www.EyeontheUN.org — treats the U.S. as a human-rights violator on a scale surpassed only by Sudan, the Congo, and the U.N.'s all-time favorite target, Israel.

Let's empty the UN headquarters and send in some New Orleans evacuees.

Alan, that would actually improve the smell in the UN headquarters building.

Not that I would want it to change, but I did notice a lack of blue hats helping out in New Orleans. I don't think Kofi plans on cutting back the dues, so that the US can use that money to help the victims of Katrina.