You are not supposed to negotiate with terrorists, but if you are the United Nations, you can sit down and have a nice, pleasant chat with them as they oppress millions of women.

U.N. Special Envoy Roza Otunbayeva, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan, is holding a meeting with the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries to ask the Taliban to protect women’s rights. Absent from this meeting are Afghan women, the ones who are being oppressed by the fundamentalist Islamic regime that blocks them from working, leaving the home, or going to school.

Otunbayeva insists “nobody dictated” that women must be left out of the meeting, meaning that the U.N. chose to make that part of the procedure in keeping with its tradition of pandering to the worst governments in the world. The U.N. had already been working toward recognizing the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan once the Taliban took over the country again, and Otunbayeva is going to legitimize them further in a useless meeting in which U.N. officials will ask very nicely for the Taliban to respect women, and the Taliban will laugh and go on with their normal activities.

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That is the whole strategy, by the way. Otunbayeva said of the Taliban that “we need badly that they will change their minds and let girls go to school,” as if the terrorist group will suddenly change its ways when faced with U.N. lectures or begging. And in case you wondered just how unseriously the U.N. is treating this, there will also be a chunk of the meeting spent on lecturing the Taliban about climate change.

This is par for the course for the U.N. The U.N. is a tyranny-enabling, antisemitic collection of useless bureaucrats who are cashing in on American taxpayer dollars while achieving nothing beneficial for the world. The U.N. is a destructive force in the world, lending legitimacy to tyrants such as the Taliban. There is no reason this should continue to happen on the dime of American taxpayers.