Are we still in the UN because it does good, or returns value to us? Are we still a member state just to monitor others? Or are we locked in because withdrawal would be politically unpopular?

There are strong indications the U.S. and company have broken open a huge ring of lethal weapons dealers, centred in Pakistan's secret nuclear programmes. They are astounded by the scale of operations, of which the IAEA had no clue, and are only beginning to make a reckoning. Naturally, the U.N., whose job it was to do what the U.S. and company are now doing for themselves, want to get in on the action. And this for the oldest of bureaucratic motives: for they now need a reason to exist.

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