Isn’t that the nature of the United Nations? It exists as an entity only to criticize the United States and Israel.
Posted on 11/05/2003 9:35:06 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
U.N. chief Kofi Annan has named a third panel to investigate reforms of its security operations as a result of the August 19 bombing of its Baghdad headquarters, which left 22 dead and almost 100 seriously wounded. Because of the latest investigation, Annan temporarily suspended his security chief, Tun Myat, and Ramiro Lopes da Silva, who ran operations for the U.N. in Baghdad. Tun was replaced by Catherine Bertini, currently the U.N.'s human resources director and former head of the World Food Program. Beritni, a U.S. citizen and well connected in Washington, is arguably the most powerful American now serving under Annan. The latest investigation and subsequent personnel shuffles are just the latest moves growing out of the attack on the U.N.'s Iraq headquarters. U.N. sources tell NewsMax they expect "more heads to roll and at a higher level." Current Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette (Canada) who had been assigned security responsibilities by Annan, was criticized by an earlier investigatory panel as not being qualified to handle those chores. Though Annan has remained publicly supportive, word is she may be on borrowed time. U.S. diplomatic sources tell NewsMax that the panel's report (released October 21) "was devastating" and Washington could not see how Annan "could avoid rolling heads." Several senior Annan staffers are said to be on "thin ice" claims a U.N. source. U.N. staffers speak of "knives flying" behind the scenes. NewsMax has leaned of a security field survey commissioned by Annan when the U.N. decided to reopen its Baghdad headquarters in May. The survey is said to have been concerned with a number of issues, especially a lack of experienced, trained security personnel available for duty in the Iraqi capital. The report is said to had gotten "bogged down" inside the U.N. bureaucracy during the summer months. Then came the August attack. While the U.N. admits there had been numerous "meetings" by U.N. officials during the summer to discuss the "situation" in Baghdad, NewsMax has leaned that Annan himself attended several of those meetings. "He was there, he spoke, he opted not to do anything," says one source familiar with the gatherings. "It's all a con job" relented a U.N. security veteran. "They (Annan's staff) will do whatever they can to save their jobs."
This is indicative of why the UN is irrelevant. After dozens of resolutions on Irag, nothing gets done. After three panels on security, nothing gets done.
If the UN was relevant it would take one resolution and one panel. Get us the hell out of this debating club.
True. He hasn't needed a panel for that, though.
And what makes you think we'd get anything better than Goofi Annan if he was forced out. There ain't much to pick from in the upper ranks of the UN.
There is no chance we'd get Negroponti to lead the UN. But there is a good chance we'd get more of what we got now - or worse!
The only real solution is to ship the whole mess to Paris.
Read the article carefully. Note the key words......."temporarily suspended"....."personnel shuffle"......."on thin ice".....
It says nowhere that "heads have rolled". At the most, the heads will be transplanted somewhere else in the bureaucracy.
This is all sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Leni
Isn’t that the nature of the United Nations? It exists as an entity only to criticize the United States and Israel.
Exactly the reason the U.N. is such an ineffective group of pontificating pompous half wits..
Yeah, but they'd probably just replace him with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton. Hardly an improvement.
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