A question I would like to ask Mr. Annan, who thinks his erstwhile employer needs to address Darfur.
You've been in charge of the joint for almost a decade. Darfur has been a humanitarian disaster since 2003. Why on earth have you decided now that something must be done? I grant you there's little the guy could've done to corral the misbegotten horror show of an organization that he oversees, but what's with the loud pronunciations of moral righteousness when the door is about to hit you on the posterior? What happened to the buck stopping there? Oh, that's right, the bucks did stop there in the acclaimed Oil-for-Kofi's-Retirement Fund.
This joker said in his speech
"I urge you to lose no time in sending a team of independent and universally respected experts to investigate the latest escalation of abuses," Annan said in a recorded video address opening the meeting.Because everyone knows machete-wielding militias are in terror over universally respected experts. Yes, and the soon-to-be-delivered UN resolution is likely to stop the pillage.
The organization is a joke. Its efforts are meaningless. And this particular "leader" is the same as all the rest of them. Venal, self-righteous, and full of platitudes. I'd say good riddance, but I doubt it matters. I suspect the next cowardly time-server will be just as bad.
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