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2005-02-11 International-UN-NGOs

Kofi Annan insists UN role vital for world affairs

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Posted by Fred 2005-02-11 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Perhaps he should start "insisting" on other things, like:
Ending the escalating Korean War.
Ending the Mad Mullahs' death spiral.
Getting Syrians out of neighboring countries.
Getting U.N. disaster relief to take days, not weeks to begin.
Getting the U.N. out of the Climate business.
Getting Kojo a legitimate job.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-11 12:09:03 AM|| 2005-02-11 12:09:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Goo-fi is only calling it "vital" because that's the justification for sucking money out of Uncle Sam's (and others') pockets.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-11 12:54:15 AM|| 2005-02-11 12:54:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Vital for what? A global laughing-stock? :-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-02-11 12:55:09 AM|| 2005-02-11 12:55:09 AM|| Front Page Top

Posted by .com 2005-02-11 6:29:39 AM|| 2005-02-11 6:29:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Forget it, Kofi; the UN's already been written off as a total waste of time. When we can sweet-talk it (or bludgeon it) into doing something useful for us, we will; otherwise, we're going to be ignoring it from now on. Might as well get used to it: you're now irrelevant.

Condi Rice's Paris speech on Tuesday drew a lot of criticism for its blandness and seeming lack of substance.

But there was a message in that speech: although Dr. Rice mentioned the European Union and NATO many times and discussed their roles in the WoT at some length, nowhere in that 3000+ word address was there so much as a single mention of the United Nations. Zip. Nada.

In the question-and-answer session following her address, one questioner asked about the UN and whether we would be continuing to work through it. Her answer, in about 200 sugar-coated words, was essentially "There's nothing special about the UN and we will work through whatever forum gets results," and pointedly mentioned the tsunami relief effort by the US, Japan, India and Australia to illustrate what she meant.

I could be wrong, of course; but I think there was a very strong message in that speech.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-02-11 6:55:34 AM|| 2005-02-11 6:55:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 How in the world did that bloated, corrupt, anti-American bureaucracy populated by the worse sort of whores and scumbags imaginable become legitimate in so many eyes?
Irrelevant yes, but dangerous none the less.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-02-11 8:49:35 AM|| 2005-02-11 8:49:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Geesh JerseyMike, do you have to insult whores and scumpags like that? Even they have standards!

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-02-11 9:03:25 AM|| 2005-02-11 9:03:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't even think about putting up the diagram of the sphUNcter.

Don't even think about it.

Posted by Fred 2005-02-11 3:34:36 PM|| 2005-02-11 3:34:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred---Oh, the imagery! Please stop. I am eating lunch and reading RB. I know it't not advisable.....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-11 3:48:35 PM|| 2005-02-11 3:48:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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