THE ISSUE: The threat that the United could become the target of a terrorist attack.
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Perhaps Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN bureaucrats should be called the turtles at Turtle Bay for their apparent slowness to react and their ability to pull their bodies into a shell (“Ostriches at Turtle Bay,” Editorial, Nov. 25).
Karl Minner
Yonkers
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This is consistent with United Nations’ behavior for over 60 years. Having ignored its mandate to protect human rights worldwide, even contributing to abuses, they have always let America do their job.
Mayor Bloomberg could halt his declining popularity by insisting the United Nations protect the city by threatening to banish them to where no views or nightlife would distract them from their duties.
David Bergstein
Turtle Bay
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The United Nations is right to not be concerned about a terrorist attack.
Why would terrorists attack an organization which provides a forum for their state sponsors? Or when every international UN-sponsored intervention is hobbled by corruption and weakened by ineptitude?
Why attack when the presence of inept UN action provides a fig-leaf for the Western conscience and represents no threat to the terrorist agenda?
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati