The city of San Francisco is not a member of the United Nations, but don’t bother local elected leaders with facts like that — they’re too busy crafting unsolicited foreign policy positions. Tuesday’s 8-3 Board of Supervisors approval of a nonbinding resolution urging the U.S. government to slash military spending and to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was only the latest move in a string of mostly futile attempts to sway the outcome of international affairs. Read More