After all, if leading figures in the organization are so loathe to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, why do we even stay a member?

[U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark] Malloch Brown was quoted in a British newspaper Wednesday suggesting that he does not think that Hezbollah, the Syrian- and Iranian-backed group currently fighting Israeli Defense Forces, is a terrorist organization.

"It's not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism. Hezbollah employs terrorist tactics; it is an organization, however, whose roots historically are completely separate and different from Al Qaeda," he said, according to a transcript of an interview.

So Hezbollah may look like terrorists and act like terrorists, but they are not terrorists because they are not al-Qaeda. This ignores the minor detail that one can be a terrorist without being a part of al-Qaeda, just as one could be a pirate without being Blackbeard.

Can't we just admit that the UN is a failed experiment in utopian diplomacy and dismiss the organization from both our budget and our shores?

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