''Inside the Asylum'' is a 2004 book by former US Undersecretary of Defense Jed Babbin, which accuses the UN and " Old Europe" of anti-Americanism. Babbin accuses the UN of having links to

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organizations and selling its moral legitimacy for oil and enriching itself at the expense of the Iraqi people but undermining American pressure on

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. Babbin suggests that the US should leave the UN and focus on forming alliances with countries that he considers are really for

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and

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. Babbin accuses Kofi Annan and his "wasteful bureaucracy of UN employees" of acting not in the name of the UN Charter to promote world peace and global security but instead channeling dirty money such as from

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program, supporting terrorist causes, and using the Security Council to attempt to shackle the American

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in its own international affairs and thereby illegitimately expanding its own vastly-overreaching political power.

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* Jed Babbin. 2004. ''Inside the Asylum: Why the United Nations and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think''. Regnery Publishing, Inc. .

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