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-Short Attention Span Theater-
UN Leader for Tourism
2012-05-29
With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN's choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk.
OK, which Smirk is the odd one? It's not Pappa Smirk.
Seldom, however, has there been such anger, or questioning of the organisation's credibility, as that greeting the appointment of a new international envoy for tourism: Robert Mugabe.
The Zimbabwe president, accused of ethnic cleansing and bankrupting his country, asked to champion terrorism tourism.
Improbable as it seems, the Zimbabwean president, who is widely accused of ethnic cleansing, rigging elections, terrorising opposition, controlling media and presiding over a collapsed economy, has been endorsed as a champion of efforts to boost global holidaymaking.
I gues he does have a background in holiday making. At the expense of his country, of course.
Despite that fact Mugabe, 88, is under a travel ban, he has been honoured as a "leader for tourism" by the UN's World Tourism Organisation, along with his political ally, Zambian president Michael Sata, 75. The pair signed an agreement with UNWTO secretary general Taleb Rifai at their shared border at Victoria Falls on Tuesday.
The UN strikes again!
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#3  At least they didn't give him a job on the wretched Human Rights Commission. Is there anything the UN touches that doesn't turn into parody or disaster?
Posted by: SteveS   2012-05-29 16:02  

#2  The Zimbabwe president, accused of ethnic cleansing and bankrupting his country, asked to champion terrorism tourism.

"Ethnic cleansing" of the white man does not count when the selection of the UN Leader for Tourism terrorism is at hand.

Some potentially unnoticed irony on our Memorial Day:

The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Rhodesia from the United Kingdom was signed on November 11, 1965. The timing of Smith's telegram to the British Prime Minister (Harold Wilson) announcing the UDI was symbolic. The message was sent at precisely 1 pm local time (11 am in London) at the exact moment that the United Kingdom started its Remembrance Day tradition (two minutes of silence to mark the end of World War I and honour its war dead). The not-so-hidden message in this timing was to recall the fact that Rhodesia had helped the UK in its time of need in both World Wars and that the British should not forget that.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-29 15:10  

#1  Oyster Bay again shows us why it's the 'Whirled Leader'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-05-29 14:29  

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