Cox & Forkum: Parting Shot

Cox & Forkum: Parting Shot

CNN: Annan chides U.S. in farewell speech.

Kofi Annan had some strong words Monday for the United States in his farewell speech as secretary-general of the United Nations. …

“When power, especially military force, is used, the world will consider it legitimate only when convinced that it is being used for the right purpose, for broadly shared aims, in accordance with broadly accepted norms.”

As things stand, accountability between states is highly skewed. Poor and weak states are easily held to account, because they need foreign assistance. But large and powerful states, whose actions have the greatest impact on others, can be constrained only by their own people, working through their domestic institutions.

That gives the people and institutions of such powerful states a special responsibility to take account of global views and interests, as well as national ones. …

In fact, it is only through multilateral institutions that states can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.

Kofi Annan is a damn CROOK along with his son. They both belong in prison.

Good Bye and Good riddance…..

Thanks for turning the United Nations from a feckless, meaningless, international organization into a CORRUPT, feckless, meaningless, international organization.

Jules Crittenden has more.

The Heritage Foundation: Kofi Annan’s Legacy of Failure 

Today’s United Nations is a broken institution in fundamental need of wholesale reform. That is Annan’s legacy, and the United States and the world looks forward to new leadership at Turtle Bay—leadership that is untarnished by the taint of scandal and actually lives up to the ideals of the U.N.’s own Declaration of Human Rights. The U.N. needs a Secretary General who will seek real reform of the U.N. bureaucracy and aggressively stand up for democracy, human rights, and freedom.

Indeed……

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