But at a time when Ban Ki-Moon has been moaning and groaning that the UN lacks enough money to feed hungry children, the larger question is why the UN would agree to this lavish gilding, let alone throw itself a party to celebrate.

Sheesh, first Kofi then Ban Ki, who said something to the effect that the slaughter in Darfur was tied to global warming. “The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change,” Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column.

Drought and competition for land, for sure, but no mention of the methodical “savage genocide of attrition” under both you and your predecessor, Ban.

Is being brain dead part of the job requirements to head up “The UN” ?

Maybe the folks under their new $23 mil ceiling could discuss their organization’s own abject and permanent failure (despite reams of reports and meetings & so forth) to do jack sh!t about slaughter in Darfur spanning years.