The Art of Politics

So It Begins

Mr. Annan, your taxi is waiting, and here's a box for the crap on your desk...

As I wrote at Slings & Arrows during my recent absence from my own no-longer-negelected blog, it's time for Kofi Annan to go. And the grumblings are now starting to get louder.

There isn't a single bad apple in the UN barrel - it's a rotten barrel of apples that must be heaved into the offal pile. Annan can try and couch himself as the hardworking hero, but he's a corrupt anti-American hack who has overseen disaster after disaster after disaster.

Let's be honest though - the repeated failing of the UN are not so much the product of Annan, as much as they are the paralysis of an overfed bureaucracy that has only it's own perpetual motion as it's major interest.

The time is long past due for a rational rethinking of the United Nations.

Posted by MEC2 at December 5, 2004 09:21 PM