#1 Lol! He's become one hell of a camp follower. A week or two after Bush says something - ol' Buttercup realizes he means it and it's going to happen, so we hear an echo. Fucking useless, except for the entertainment value, but he is following the tune. The pretense that he and his kleptoklub have anything, anything whatsoever to do with any of the positive efforts (tsunami) or changes (Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, little squeaks of democracy all over the ME, possible coup in Syria, pending removal of Black Hat + nukes, etc.) is, well, it's just precious. Lol! If Dubya decided not to say anything or meet with anyone for a week, Kofi would stumble around in circles -- followed by an army of equally useless MSM wankers.
The UN, as the deleted opinion piece of yesterday itemized, is a pointless burden, a millstone at best, while at worst it is an manipulative impediment which deserves ripping out by the roots and immediate exile to the dustbin of history.
We've learned a lot about what does and doesn't work in such an organization, after 2 tries. Time to begin designing a replacement org with membership rules and goals and methods which actually make sense, given the lessons learned. After we've passed the pipe around the circle a few times, the who what how etc will be fairly clear. We can certainly continue via bilateral agreements and coalition of the willing arrangements in the interim.
Annan and his bloated ineffective expensive bureaucracy should have the plug pulled, feeding tubes removed, and the certificate issued. Stick a fork in it, they're done. |
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan expects a complete withdrawal of all Syrian forces from Lebanon before May's parliamentary elections. The announcement comes after UN special envoy to the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen, reported his findings to Annan following his whistle stop tour of Europe and the Middle East during the last week. Following the meeting Larsen said: "The conclusion after my briefing today is that the secretary general expects the full withdrawal of all Syrian troops, including the intelligence apparatus and military assets, to take place before the Lebanese parliamentary election." Syria's President Bashar Assad has committed to a first-phase pullout of troops and intelligence agents by April 1 but will not give a final timetable for a complete withdrawal until a meeting between Syrian and Lebanese security officials scheduled for April 7.