Eli Lake, Columnist

Nikki Haley Confronts the U.N.'s 'Jackals'

The U.S. ambassador, like the president, knows that the organization is irrelevant without its richest member.

December 21, 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Nikki Haley shows that the U.S. is no longer asking for the U.N.'s blessing on foreign policy.
Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

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