A link to my column today on NRO: The farewell speech I wish Kofi Annan had given.
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BRAVO :: A cold day in hell when Annan ever speaks truth and acts like a real man to take responsiblity for his mountain of failures, fraud, corruption and cover-up.
If the U.N. were held to the same standards of Enron, Annan and his cronies (Mark Malloch Brown, Benon Sevon, Iqbal Rizza) would be busy trying not to be someone’s “special friend” in a federal prison. The Oil For Food scandal makes Enron look like chump change. And we haven’t even begun to speak to the laundry list of other scandals and corruption.
I would love it if GWB would simply refuse to talk to him citing that it would be beneath the dignity of the US President to even speak to such a corrupt, duplictious, self serving person. As a matter of fact, the same standards should apply to all who denigrate the US or US President in such ways (Mahmoud A, Hugo C, Kim Jong Il, etc….).
I doubt it would be practical for the Pres to apply the same treatment for demagogues in Congress (Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, and on and on and on and on), but my opinion is that this would be a powerful rebuke to all named above. To have POTUS publically dismiss these people and their statements as frivilous and beneath him would be most welcome. I bet it would especially sting the autocrats/dictators who all crave legitimacy so dearly.
As luck would have it, Mr. Annon’s celebration speeches marking the end of his reign as Secretary General of the UN happen to coincide with the debate surrounding the release of the Baker Commission’s ISG report, and in its wake, renewed calls from some quarters for the US to find a graceful way to declare victory and remove itself from Iraq.
Does it strike anyone else as deliciously ironic that even as Mr. Annon praises the UN and its many accomplishments during the course of his tenure, our friends the Saudis, when faced head-on with the prospect of such a US “victory,” tell us that they may be willing to provide arms and other military support to the Iraqi Sunnis to prevent a bloodbath in the vacuum created by our victorious “advance to the rear.”
Why, one might plausibly ask, would our friends the Saudis act unilaterally, and in such a war-like way, rather than trust the diplomatic skills of the World’s Leading Diplomat and the organization he is so proud of, to prevent the bloodbath they fear?
Brian
There was only one thing missing from this really terrific “Kofession.” Annan could have been just a little more forthcoming. He could have admitted his total amazement at how the U.S., during his numbingly dismal Reign of Error, continued to pay up and more or less tolerate and support, (as gV calls it) The Unctuous Nations.