Kofi's replacement, Ban Ki Moon, demonstrates that John Bolton was right about his suggestion to radically renovate the United Nations Building:
The Secretary-General is extremely concerned about the continuing delay in the election of a new president in Lebanon, which has extended well past the constitutional timeframe. Over the past few days he has spoken to key political leaders in the country to urge a solution, including Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, Speaker Nabih Berri and Majority Leader Saad Hariri. He believes it is now time for this matter to be resolved without further delay.The Secretary-General will remain in close touch with Lebanese political leaders who bear, both to the people of Lebanon and to the future of the country, the responsibility to find a solution.
What's Korean for: "Hurry up and finish rigging the election so we can keep pretending your a functioning democracy!"
There is only one true freely-elected democracy in the Middle East.
Although all the other governments pretending to be freely-elected democracies there, it's pretty amusing to see the political, religious and social gymnastics they use to make their claims of democratic rule.
I once took a Ted Rall poster and improved it to demonstrate the various ways how Middle East Countries (and one terrorist group wanting to be a country) chose their leaders.
Lebanon was "Whoever Syria tells us to choose."
Considering how much difficulty they appear to be having rigging their own elections right now and the "term limit by car bomb" syndrome going on with anti-Hezbollah and anti-Syria parliamentarians, I'm not convinced that's changed all that much.
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Which is why your smacking down the Annapolis meeting was so dead on. You have to have two partners willing to work together to make peace. Not one side surrendering to appease megalomaniacs.
The UN is filled with such idiots and the United States is filled with people who feel guilty for being successful and think we owe the world something.
Go to one of those countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, China (pick as many as you like, and remember this is a very incomplete list) and try to do something to help the people which threatens to impose any kind of democracy there and watch how quickly you disappear.
We are fools for not leveraging our strength more than we do.
Posted by Houston | December 5, 2007 2:43 PM
Posted on December 5, 2007 14:43
"You have to have two partners willing to work together to make peace."
More like "You have three lame ducks looking to shackle their replacements with something they'll eventually ignore."
Posted by Laurence Simon | December 5, 2007 3:17 PM
Posted on December 5, 2007 15:17
Nah, the replacement will come up with an idea just as stupid as his predecessor and announce it as groundbreaking (at least that is what happened with Clinton to Bush).
Three words.
Tactical. Nuclear. Weapon.
Posted by Houston | December 5, 2007 4:39 PM
Posted on December 5, 2007 16:39
Yes, those three words are what Hezbollah will get when the Syrians finish up the nuclear projects with Nork plans, Iranian hardware, and Iraqi ex-pats.
Posted by Laurence Simon | December 7, 2007 2:28 PM
Posted on December 7, 2007 14:28