The United Nations, in its infinite wisdom, has appointed Iran to be a member of the group negotiating the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.  As most of you know, this treat is meant to regulate and restrict international commerce in small arms and ammunition.  As someone who enjoys the benefits of being able to purchase weapons from overseas and inexpensive ammunition to shoot out of them, I have to say it’s not one of my favorite U.N. efforts.  To me, it ranks somewhere between the U.N. working group to stop international commerce in caffeine and U.N. programs to breed a better mosquito.

And now that august body has appointed Iran, a country with a storied history of supplying guns, ammunition, training, and money to terrorists, to the group that will be trying to clean up the world’s arms markets.  No offense to the perfumed princes that meet in the Domino on the Hudson, but that’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.

What’s next?  Is the U.N. going to invite representatives from NAMBLA to take part in efforts to curb trafficking in child slaves?  Maybe a few of the guys who make moonshine on TV will be brought in to consult on treaties to regulate alcohol and tobacco usage in the developing world.  I can only hope that the widow of Pablo Escobar will be given a seat at the table when the treaty to improve access to high-grade cocaine is negotiated.

Just when I don’t think the U.N. can make itself more irrelevant and worthy of my scorn, they surprise me.