So, I stand by what I wrote about the UN yesterday. But I definitely was having a bad biorhythm day or something. So I apologize for being intemperate in my choice of words at the outset. I'm no expert in international law, either. The personal blog is not some sacrosanct "personal record"; I routinely revise posts long after they first go up. But this one I'll leave alone. (And, if anyone cares, I am heretofore adopting--at least when I remember to--the British convention of only putting punctuation within the quote marks if the punctuation is part of the quotation. It's a much more sensible way of doing things.)