Michael Barone

Fox in the henhouse

By U.S. News Staff

April 18, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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You can't make this stuff up: "United Nations Commission on Disarmament on Tuesday elected Iran as deputy for Asian nations."

The last sentence in the release is a winner too: "They [Non-Aligned Movement member states] also called on Israel to sign up to [the Non-Proliferation Treaty] and give access to all its nuclear sites for monitoring by U.N. nuclear agency." Ah, that's zeroing in on the real problem.

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Michael Barone

Michael Barone

Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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