"The Department of State desired that the U.N. prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and i carried it forward with no inconsiderable success."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. in 1975 during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor to which the latter strongly opposed, on moral grounds.
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