Naming and shaming the U.N.

This guy is my new hero:

Phillip Ruch’s monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes, more than 16,000 of them, each pair representing a victim of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II.

Seen from afar it will spell out U.N. in gigantic letters.

The “Pillar of Shame” is to be raised in the hills above Srebrenica with a controversial goal: singling out the United Nations and international leaders as the ones most responsible for failing to prevent the mass killings.

The UN isn’t invited to the memorial. Hard to imagine why. Oh, wait. No it isn’t.

Srebrenica fell to the Serbs after senior U.N. commanders dithered on Dutch requests for air strikes and its overwhelmingly Bosnian Muslim residents swarmed the U.N. military base, seeking refuge. But the peacekeepers allowed the Serbs to take away the townspeople when Gen. Ratko Mladic, their leader, said they would not be harmed.

The shootings began shortly after. While Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is now being tried by the U.N. tribunal at the Hague for allegedly masterminding Srebrenica, Mladic remains at large. And the bodies, bulldozed into mass graves, keep turning up by the hundreds each year.

This is the organization that wants Israel to trust it to protect her citizens. Shyeah. Because UNIFIL is doing such a great job in Lebanon.

The Lebanese army will send an additional brigade to the south of the country after several skirmishes between United Nations peacekeepers and villagers inflamed tensions near the border with Israel.

The last two weeks have seen an increase in standoffs in the border area, a bastion of the Hezbollah group. Last week, residents attacked French UNIFIL peacekeepers on patrol, seizing their weapons and wounding the patrol leader.

(By the way, Reuters ignores the part of UNSCR 1701 that calls for Hezbollah’s disarming, too. Imagine that.)

Yeah, those blue helmets. So trustworthy, the UN is being vilified by the countries it purported to help.