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What Is Annanism?
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| 22 Dec 06
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 12/22/2006 6:04:48 AM PST by rellimpank
The triumph of the therapeutic over the tragic.
Everyone seems to take some joy in listening to outgoing secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, especially during the holidays. But just as with other such ethicists as a lip-biting Bill Clinton or creased-browed Jimmy Carter, Annan is as publicly acclaimed as he is privately ignored. We like such itinerant moralists more when they are off the job than on, and always in retrospect rather than contemporaneously. As we watch them hedge, we somehow feel apologetic rather than outraged over their latest deception.
The secretary-general introduced with fulsome praise by Sen. Chuck Hagel recently gave a remarkable farewell speech at the Truman Library. It was delivered in his customary soothing inflection with impeccable diction, and it was just as customarily predictable the content was as historically inaccurate as it was exemplary of what we have now come to know as Annanism.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: incompetence; liberalagenda; scandals; vdh; victordavishanson; yellowkoffee
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--good piece on Kofi the Phoney---
To: rellimpank
Same as Onanism, except on a world stage........
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:06:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: Red Badger
dang it - beat me by that much
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:09:52 AM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(When music is banned, only the bands will have music.)
To: rellimpank
Kifi Anus...still a third world loser.
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:10:38 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Don't you think it's interesting how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather.)
To: Hegemony Cricket
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:16:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: rellimpank
What Is Annanism? It's like feckless, corrupt stupidity...
only more feckless, more corrupt, and... stupider?
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:17:02 AM PST
by
Sicon
To: rellimpank
Fantastic article. I especially liked the sentence on John Bolton, hah.
The full column is a must-read. The writer nails it.
I wonder if any of our elected mucky-mucks in D.C. ever read articles like this.
Leni
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:34:07 AM PST
by
MinuteGal
(The Left takes power only through deception.)
To: MinuteGal
--IMHO,--
anything by VDH should be required reading for elected officials.
However , I doubt that many of them understand the big words nor do they have sufficient attention span to handle compound sentences--after all, they've all been raised with the TV on---
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posted on
12/22/2006 6:49:16 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: rellimpank
Outstanding article on that UNaccountable POS.
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posted on
12/22/2006 7:03:07 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: MinuteGal
The man certainly can write.
To: MinuteGal
I'm beginning to believe it is damn doubtful that our elected "leaders" have the ability to read, let alone expend the effort to follow a reasoned piece by anyone of the caliber of VDH.
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posted on
12/22/2006 7:30:44 AM PST
by
newcthem
To: newcthem
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posted on
12/22/2006 9:24:28 AM PST
by
MinuteGal
(The Left takes power only through deception.)
To: MinuteGal
"That is why this country has historically been in the vanguard of the global human rights movement. But that lead can only be maintained if America remains true to its principles, including in the struggle against terrorism. When it appears to abandon its own ideals and objectives, its friends abroad are naturally troubled and confused."
But then, appearances are sometimes - indeed,
usually - deceiving. "Appearances" are controlled by journalists grinding political axes.
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posted on
12/22/2006 9:32:25 AM PST
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: rellimpank; Tolik
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:11:11 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: knighthawk
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posted on
12/22/2006 5:43:37 PM PST
by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: rellimpank
"Annanism": An anal fissure; a hemorrhoid.
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posted on
12/22/2006 8:50:18 PM PST
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: rellimpank; neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; ...
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posted on
12/23/2006 9:56:13 AM PST
by
Tolik
To: MizSterious; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...
When has the U.N. ever accepted anything approaching a shared responsibility? Both Saddam and the Taliban murdered with impunity. Iran has not only violated U.N. non-proliferation accords, but serially promised to wipe out Israel, and thus get credit for a first Holocaust it now denies to Hitler.
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posted on
12/23/2006 10:14:35 AM PST
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: Tolik
--and I feel the same way about anything that Theodore Dalrymple publishes--
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posted on
12/23/2006 10:14:41 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: MizSterious; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; keri; ...
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posted on
12/23/2006 10:14:58 AM PST
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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