The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages America's Security and Fails the World

by Eric Shawn

Less than five miles from Ground Zero in Manhattan sits an international hotbed of anti-Americanism. The United Nations was created after World War II to promote peace and international understanding. But over the years, and today more than ever, the U.N. has failed to achieve its original mission. It has failed to address the most dangerous threats facing the civilized world, refused to condemn terrorist acts, encouraged America's enemies, and supported some of the world's most oppressive governments, all while wasting billions of dollars. As veteran reporter Eric Shawn of Fox News Channel points out, the U.N.'s iconic skyscraper is where our so-called allies all too often undermine the United States and our vital interests. And for the honor of hosting our adversaries in our own country, Americans pay a whopping 22 percent of the U.N.'s bloated budget. The U.N. Exposed will give you a rare insider's tour of the United Nations, focusing on many disturbing aspects that have been ignored by the mainstream media. You will learn, for As Shawn declares in his introduction, "I am disgusted by the fact that the altruistic efforts of so many U.N. staff members are undercut by the greed, corruption, and ineptitude of the bureaucracy they serve."

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

336 pages, Paperback

First published May 4, 2006

Reviews

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[Rick · Rating 2 out of 5]

Shawn is a Fox News reporter that has done some great investigative work at the U.N. when no other reporter was doing it. Although Shawn has uncovered the waste and corruption at the U.N. and clearly shows an organizational culture that supports or allows sexual abuse, corruption, and general immorality it is not well written. Half way through the book I began to look at the rest of the book as more of something I wanted to skim through looking at headlines and not read. The disjointed nature of the book made me feel like he put his past news reports in a book but didn't tie them together in an organized way.

[Adam Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid dissection of the problems associated with the U.N., including incompetence, crime (remember the whole sex scandal? Neither does anybody else, but not because it didn't happen). He helpfully shows how employing your own press reporters, a normal tactic in Europe but a sign of conflict of interest in America, helps insulate the organization from criticism. He reveals how they really don't know what they're doing, and suggests that having genocidal dictators on the Security Council actually might hinder world security. He shows how the U.N. is actually complicity in some of these problems too. So, overall a good read, but from a Neo-Con perspective.