Kofi Annan and the United Nations: Two Abject Failures

Kofi Annan and the United Nations: Two Abject Failures

Question: What’s the chief difference between a losing Major League Baseball manager and the United Nations’ Special Envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan?




Answer: The MLB manager wears a uniform and Annan doesn’t. Otherwise, they’re all but indistinguishable.



No matter how often the manager is canned because his team or teams lose or fail to make the playoffs, some other team in the good, old boy MLB network invariably hires him, fires him when he fails again, and another team then signs him.



In Annan’s case, he fails, screws up, and covers up over and over but never gets cashiered or goes jobless no matter how many people die or starve due to his failures.



It’s good to have powerful friends in high places, buddies such as the left wingers on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee who turn a blind eye to brazen ineptitude when they like your ethnic background and when your political views mesh with theirs.



The 74 year old Kofi Atta Annan, a native Ghanaian and career U.N. diplomat, was awarded that prestigious prize in 2001 jointly with the United Nations “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.”



That honor was almost as incongruous as conferring the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Barack Hussein Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” Obama had been president for less than a year and, like Annan, had accomplished absolutely nothing for world peace and has been engaged in numerous, non-peaceful wars ever since.



But, he fit the Nobel preferred profile. As I said, as long as the Nobel Committee likes your ethnicity and is in sync with your politics, you qualify. Despite many reasons to admit its mistakes and revoke its prizes to Obama, the U.N., or Annan, that revocation will never happen.



Annan’s coveted award should be declared a grievous error for a multitude of reasons:



. Prior to making it big time, Annan served as director of U.N. Peacekeeping Operations during the 1994 Rwanda genocide. According to various reports, Director Annan stood by passively while up to a million Tutsis were slaughtered by bloodthirsty Hutus.



He was rewarded by the U.N. for being a genocide enabler with his election as Secretary General by the General Assembly in 1996 and that absurdity was accented by his re-election in 2001. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26592.)