‘A prolonged and solemn farce,” Churchill’s description of 1930s disarmament talks, applies even more accurately to the annual round of UN climate talks, which just wrapped up their 17th year of world-saving negotiations in Durban, South Africa, with another 11th-hour “breakthrough” that amounts only to agreeing to meet again next year and repeat the farce.

The corruption of the human rights ideal has to be fought not only at the United Nations, but inside the domestic institutions of Western nations--and within our own minds and consciences.

Steven Hayward reports on the results of the Durban climate change convention. 

As the obsession with "peace processing" has consumed the Obama administration, Iran has marched inexorably forward with its nuclear-weapons program. Indeed, Iran will likely be this week's real winner in New York, exemplified by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking from the same General Assembly podium just twenty-four hours after the faltering president of the United States.

The Obama administration's foreign policy performance has been uneven--with its withdrawal from the United Nations group preparing for "Durban II" merely the most obvious mess.

Anti-Americanism and anti-Israel activism win Obama's approbation.

The decision not to attend the United Nations conference is likely the Obama administration's most painful foreign policy call to date.