All Intensive Purposes

Newt Gingrich recently made some astute comments on reform at the UN, related at TPM Cafe. A sample:

"Corruption, inefficiency and ineffectiveness in the United Nations implementation capabilities directly hurt the poorest countries and the poorest people in the world. So this is not simply an American interest in saving money. So, if you are sincerely interested in helping the poorest people in the world, if you are sincerely interested in helping health around the world, if you're sincerely interested in maximizing development there's a very real interest in having an effective United Nations. The terms of the debate ought not to be about saving the American taxpayers' money. It ought to be about wasting the money which should be available to directly help the poorest people in the world."