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Biography
Jed Babbin is the best-selling author of "Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe Are Worse than You Think" (Regnery 2004). He is a former Air Force officer who served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration.

Mr. Babbin is a contributing editor for the American Spectator Magazine. His weekly column, "Loose Canons," appears in The American Spectator Online. Mr. Babbin's expertise is in national security and foreign affairs. However, he also writes about legal matters and for The American Spectator's "Saloon" series on subjects such as single-barrel bourbon and fine cigars.

Mr. Babbin is a military analyst and appears frequently on the Fox News Channel and MSNBC, on shows such as The O'Reilly Factor, Scarborough Country, and many others. He also often serves as a guest host on top-rated talk radio shows including Hugh Hewitt (Salem Radio Networj), John Batchelor Show (ABC Radio) and has also subbed for Laura Ingraham (TRN), Mark Larson (KOGO) and Greg Garrison (WIBC). He began substitute hosting for Lt. Col. Oliver North's "Common Sense Radio" program in the 1990s.Mr. Babbin wrote the novel, Legacy of Valor (Pentland Press, 2000).

Mr. Babbin is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology (B.E. 1970), Cumberland School of Law (J.D. 1973) and the Georgetown University Law School (LL.M. 1978).

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Session SP11:
Oil-for-Food Scandal and UN Inaction in the War on Terror
February 18, 9:00 - 9:45 Name of the presentation
Abstract:
Four and a half years since 9-11, and the UN hasn't even defined "terrorism", much less done anything about it. The UN is a diplomatic quagmire, incapable of serious action, a tar baby which the United States is again embracing in pursuit of a solution to Iran's nuclear arms program. It is time for the United States to take military action against Iran and to begin gathering democracies into an organization that will replace the UN. The UN replacement should be comprised only of democracies, and -- by so structuring itself - would at least have a chance to accomplish the serious actions of which the UN is incapable.