Depose Saddam Hussein?

No, thanks.

Genocide in Rwanda?

Gee, sorry, we’re busy.

Palestinian terrorist suicide bombers?

Not a problem.

Spanking your kids is still LEGAL in Canada???

Kofi Annan to the rescue!!!!!

For as the Vancouver Sun explains on their front page yesterday,

Parents who spank their children came under fire on Tuesday as the United Nations told Ottawa to ban all forms of corporal punishment of youngsters — from a light slap to a good shake.

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The UN ruling was issued after Ottawa sent a large delegation of experts and government officials to Geneva to be grilled on Canada’s child-care record by the world body’s Committee on Rights of the Child.

In a report, the committee says Canada should “adopt legislation to remove the existing authorization of the use of ‘reasonable force’ in disciplining children and explicitly prohibit all forms of violence against children, however light, within the family, in schools and in other institutions where children might be placed.”

I wonder if I could spank my kids if they were Israelis? As OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web explains,

if you’re a Canadian parent and you want to discipline your children without running afoul of the U.N., you may soon have to hire a Palestinian to blow them up.