Over at Fox News, Hugh Hewitt writes of the Biden administration’s approach to Israel:
What should Americans feel? Scorn for the Model U.N. mindset dominating the National Security Council now and the Yale Debate chops of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his “once-in-a-generation intellect.
Hey, hey, hey! Let’s not besmirch the good name of Model U.N. by comparing it to the Biden administration’s National Security Council. You don’t see teenagers participating in Model U.N. meetings hesitating before a move, asking, “how is this going to affect turnout in Dearborn, Michigan, and will we carry the state of Michigan in November?” No serious Model U.N. participant would consider just saying “Don’t!” to be a sufficient deterrent to a rogue state.
At middle school and high school Model U.N. meetings, participants are expected to generate results. They get held accountable. There are winners and losers. And you almost never see middle school and high school Model U.N. meetings selecting Iran to chair a human rights council meeting, or naming the Iranian representative to be president of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, or naming Iran to a special commission on the status of women. (In 2022, the U.N. finally barred Iran from that last one.)
We should wish for the actual United Nations to be half as efficient, focused, diligent and serious as the typical regional middle-school or high school Model U.N. meeting.
I mean, if you want actual creative problem-solving, at my younger offspring’s most recent Model U.N. meeting, participants were playing the role of Geronimo Stilton–style mice, contemplating a threat from humanity. My son proposed a plan to preemptively strike the humans by bringing back the Bubonic Plague. He cited an National Institutes of Health report on transmission methods, infection rates, and death rates.
It’s creative ideas like that that ensure that I get regular calls from school security officers.