A new book is out on the dark and sleazy world of the United Nations. Granted, I’ve just read a review of his book by Mark Lype from Embassy but the books looks to be a fascinating read. Michael Soussan started with the UN just out of college in 1997. He started working in the mother of all scams by the United Nations, the Oil for Food program. What should have a program for humanitarian relief was nothing more than a scam for Saddam Hussein and UN bureaucrats to line their own pockets. The breath of pocket lining within the UN and beyond is an unerasable black mark against an organization governed by despots and dictators. Ah, but that whole discussion of the United Nations as nothing more than a cesspool of self serving non-democratic countries is something I have ranted about on too numerous to mention occasions.

What Mr. Soussan does confirm is the lifting of sanctions by the United Nations against Saddam Hussein just prior to the start of the second front on the Global War on Terror in Iraq.

A Journey Down the UN’s Darkest Hallways

The book then chronicles the downfall of the corrupt system that enriched and emboldened Saddam Hussein, and indirectly led to the U.S. invasion in 2003. As the investigation grew and the full extent of the debacle that was the Oil-for-Food program became apparent, Mr. Soussan explains, he came to understand how the program had corrupted so many people and how he had ended up with an organization that valued employees who could “hide their eyes, cover their ears and shut their mouths in the face of gross incompetence and corruption.”

Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy – Michael Soussan (Nation Books)

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