Posted on 10/13/2018 5:42:11 PM PDT by TBP
Since this week’s surprise announcement that Nikki Haley would depart by year’s end, everyone wants to know who’ll replace America’s UN ambassador — who was first dismissed, then hated, then feared and eventually appreciated, heck, even loved (at least by some).
The answer, obviously, is up to the never-predictable President Trump, so most names bandied about are speculative, with many driven by wishful thinking. So here’s a wish: Christopher Burnham. Never heard of him? You may soon.
Back in 2005-2006, then-Undersecretary General for Management Burnham, a former Connecticut comptroller and State Department official, was the highest American at the UN under Kofi Annan. Effectively the bureaucracy’s CEO, he pushed back against the place’s worst instincts.
He forced senior officials, for example, to file annual financial-disclosure forms — a common anti-corruption tool in most democracies but absent at the world body until then.
He was also at the UN when National Security Adviser John Bolton served as ambassador, and both were instrumental in exposing the organization’s largest-ever scandal: the bribery-laden Oil for Food program.
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Sounds great he certainly knows what corrupt bunch of bastards he is dealing with!
I don’t think we should honor the UN with a capable appointee with the skills to make the place function.
It’s not worth a pitcher of warm spit.
Great! For the most unimportant position in government?
#dontfilltheposition
I worked with him in his business phase. Incredibly impressive individual.
Sounds good on paper.
Nevertheless, I think Trump will pick a woman and the office will be downgraded from a direct member of the cabinet and will report directly to SoS, the way it used to be, and the way it should be.
If he is as good as the article says, then I think the MSM/HOLLYWOOD/DEMS will claim he used to dress as a nun and sell dope to schoolchildren.
Now we have tough-as-nails Pompeo leading state like a boss, and the bulldog Bolton taking no prisoners at NSC. So we no longer need the UN job to be someone forceful.
I think Trump should nominate Maxine Waters or a mannequin for the job...Maxine because she would be with anti American friends, a mannequin because it is worth nothing...
Who?
Trump is either going to send Bolton, or let Pence send Coats or Mitch Daniels. Iran is itching for a fight abroad next year to control their internal opposition, you can feel it.
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