WE'VE JOINED THE CLUB – FEEL HONORED – AT 7:45 P.M. ET:  Well, at least it isn't only Israel the UN is anguished about.  We're apparently number two on the list.  There are grave concerns, very grave:

(CNSNews.com) – The targeted assassination of terror suspects by remote control, a program expanded significantly under the Obama administration, comes under the spotlight Thursday, when the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council considers a report warning of the “risk of developing a ‘PlayStation’ mentality to killing.”

The report by Philip Alston, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, deals with various types of “targeted killing” carried out by states, paying considerable attention to the use by the U.S. of unmanned drones to fire missiles at terror suspects along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

Earlier this week it was reported that Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, purportedly the al-Qaeda terrorist network’s No. 3 figure, had been killed in a missile strike in Pakistan’s North Waziristan last month.

The U.S. is a member of the Human Rights Council, having joined last year after the Bush administration steered clear of it. Some of its members hostile to the U.S. have frequently used the forum to attack American policies, particularly those associated with what used to be called the war on terrorism.

Joining the Council was a big mistake.  Bush was right in ignoring it.  It is an organization run by dictators and Muslim states, a wonderful combination.

Alston raises concerns about the fact the drone program is run by the Central Intelligence Agency, suggesting that a military-run operation would be preferable because the U.S. military has a relatively public – if “by no means perfect” – accountability process.

Tut, tut, tut, America.  You're getting rough again. 

The sad fact here is that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. might well take the UN's "concerns" seriously, and put Americans at risk. 

The UN has become worse than the old League of Nations, which failed to prevent World War II because it was indifferent to the rise of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.  At least the League didn't have all these hypocritical subdivisions, panels and councils, many of them run by the kind of people the UN was originally set up to stop.

June 3, 2010