I know many are bandying about our ex-president Bill C. for the top spot at the UN when it comes open at the end of the year. And with all those nice-looking translators sashaying around the Economic and Social Council in their sarongs, he does seem a logical choice. But realizing now the United Nations has no real intention of making any serious reforms and having read Kofi Annan’s defense of his deputy Malloch Brown, I humbly submit a candidate for Secretary General of the United Nations who would fit in better at Turtle Bay than anyone I could think of, who may be perfect for the job – Jack Abramoff. Now I know Mr. Abramoff has some strikes against him, but perhaps we could get him some diplomatic immunity. And if anyone could finally figure out what happened with Oil-for-Food, it’s Jack.
Brown and Annan have attacked America. This is a defining moment for the Democrats. Will they defend the UN or their fellow Americans?
What will it be, Democrats? Where does your allegiance lie?
HA – I’m surprised you waste your time even asking.
Sorry, I still vote for Bill.
Then lets move the diplomats to France, then lets terminate US funding.
My guess is, if you want an experienced money chaser to chase the money from oil for food, get inside the minds of the “UN Peacekeeper-pacificst-rapists-in-Africa”, snuggle up to the Chinese so as to keep an eye on Russia, collude with the Russians so as to confuse the Chinese, maintain an “in” with Kim in Korea, AND employ a politician who still can create enough international incidents to perpetiually pre-occupy Jimmah Carter, its Bill.
Mebbe Hillary will tag along for the posh parties.
Please Rich,
Let’s not even kid about this one.
Roger is engaging in the old tactic of pulling our legs. Another Moses Wine antic.
Every two weeks or so, he pulls out of his Hollywood hat a Clinton comment to gauge the depth and breath of Clintonmania, his servers hit record levels, the vitrol escalates, the Hillary haters like me type long diatribes about how evil she is, and he sits back and smiles.
Relax, fellow readers, we have two more years of fact gathering and fact checking and enough time for the Clintons to surface, crash and burn just like Howard Dean.
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Why worry about small fry like Jack Abramoff. He has only corrupted one country.
Let’s get someone who really knows about OIF, the workings of the Security Council, and has experience working with the UN’s Human Rights Commissions and Biogolical and Nuclear Weapons inspectors. He also has experience managing peacekeeping forces and maintining an authoriaran bureaucracy. We should exile SADAAM to Turtle Bay.
Hmmmm.
John Bolton for Secretary General!
Man that’ll put a twist in their knickers!
Sorry, all, I must have been biting my tongue. I thought it was still right there in my cheek!
1 of Soros’ groups helped fund this bashfest and Brown rents a house from Soros.
I bet the American people would be willing to build them an new UN as long as it’s not in America.
Has to be a place of our choosing.
Either Jerusalem and declare it an international city and give all those paleos work that they need
or Somalia
or Zimbabwe.
Why not Hillary herself?
If the ultimate goals are to keep her from being in the hunt for US President and destroy the UN completely, she is the one to do it.
OK,
Let me throw water on the discussion….
No Security Council Member citizen can sit as Sec.-Gen. I am pretty sure the candidate must come from the General Assembly….
Nice thoughts though….
The US should support Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi (currently under house arrest in Burma). She’d never get the post because of the number of dictatorships in the UN (including one on the Security Council) but this would show we don’t support Dictators in general, we stand with the Burmese people, and would make a nice contrast in the media with U Thant (Secretary General from 1961 to 1971) when the UN still had promise.
The US should push for India to host the UN General Assembly so they can have the pride of being the World Capital (so to speak) and the UN can see that a third world multicultural Democracy can work.
The US should support India, Japan and Brazil in their bids for UN seats. Its the right thing to do, it will garner good will in both nations, and it will dillute the power of the security council. Let China and Europe use up their political capital trying to keep the Security Council an elitist club.
OH, and we should hold nations accountable for their votes. If you vote against the US 100% of the time you shouldn’t expect the US to act as a friend and continue writing the checks.
I thought our pal Jacque Chirac, the top diplomat, would be a shoe-in (sp?). He needs the immunity part anyway.
A suggestion, from out in left field (but not THAT left field), would right-thinking people see Latvian President Vaira Vƒ´ke-Freiberga as a viable candidate for UN General Secretary? A faithful ally of the United States, a rare person of common sense and reason. Someone the Usual Lefties could not argue against, a woman, and University intellectual.
Recent speech to a joint session of the United States Congress this past Wednesday, June 7, 2006:
http://www.president.lv/pk/content/?art_id=9640
Would anyone seriously consider her as the next UN Secretary General?
/R
CSGSteve said “Why not Hillary herself?
If the ultimate goals are to keep her from being in the hunt for US President and destroy the UN completely, she is the one to do it.”
Always Right said: “I thought our pal Jacque Chirac, the top diplomat, would be a shoe-in (sp?). He needs the immunity part anyway.”
Well, since we’re fantacizing anyway…
May I have the envelopes please!
The number 3 worst pick for UN Secretary General goes to … Hillary!
The number 3 worst pick for UN Secretary General is (…pause…) Bill! How about that! A two-fer in the family!
And for the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the number one pick for UN Secretary General, the man sure to destroy the institution whilst doing maximum damage to his own causes and his own homeland, the name you’ve all been waiting for…
JIMMY CARTER!!! [Wild applause and Cheers!]
Gosh – my tongue-in-cheek button is severely stuck!
Vike-Freiberga seems like an excellent choice, as judged by her speech linked by The Bruce above, and also by the high regard the Latvian people hold her in, according to Wikipedia (which also points out “She is mentioned as a possible future United Nations Secretary-General.”)
Another Baltic president should also be considered: Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania. He’s an expert on environmental issues – that was his career before returning to Lithuania and getting into politics – and those will be supremely important in the coming decades.
And one more suggestion: Tun Musa Hitam of Malaysia. There’s never been a Muslim Secretary-General, and he’d be a superb choice: reasonable, totally unfanatical, honest, straightforward. He was at one time Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights, among many other lines on a brilliant resume. I’ve met him, I know people who are close to him, I have a fairly good knowledge of Malaysian politics, and I give him the highest recommendation.
And I really like the proposal of Aung San Suu Kyi, but it’ll never happen.
Lefty defends UN, attacks Bolton. No suprise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100765.html
“No Security Council Member citizen can sit as Sec.-Gen.”
OK, so how about Robert Mugabe?
Raoul Castro?
We want somebody the 3rd world won’t be able to resist, and the US electorate won;t be able to stand.