Last week, Donald Trump’s transition team announced that it has chosen Nikki Haley—the governor of South Carolina and a fierce critic of the president-elect—to be the next ambassador to the United Nations. This bodes well, writes Noah Rothman:
Haley’s ascension represents a repudiation of the kind of heedless isolationism represented by both the “paleoconservative” right and the revisionist progressive left. . . . [But the even more important] signal telegraphed by the selection of Governor Haley to lead the American mission to the UN is the due disdain it conveys for an ambassadorial culture . . . that views the diplomatic process as an end in itself. . . .
The United Nations has become a cesspit of contemptible anti-Americanism that serves only to give authoritarian nations undue influence over the course of global affairs. Its legations rewrite history so as to edit Jews out of Jerusalem. Its human-rights commission elects by secret ballot human-rights violators like Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and Saudi Arabia to lead. It is the font of scandals, including the abuse of the Iraqi Oil-for-Food program and the allegations that the UN covered up the sexual abuse of minors by peacekeepers in war zones. The United Nations regularly infringes on U.S. sovereignty by imposing on it climate regulations, restrictions on maritime navigation rights, and attacks on American freedoms in the Bill of Rights.
Will Nikki Haley make a good ambassador to the United Nations, whatever that means? It’s difficult to say. She will, however, be a welcome departure from a corrupting culture.
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