Secret Meeting to 'Rescue' U.N.

They’re on a mission to save the UN

Just as the UN was circling the drain so nicely this gang of earnest dolts are throwing it a lifeline.

Groan. Some organizations are too stupid to live. Others are so malignant that they must be destroyed. The UN manages to be both. The UN is Bermuda Triangle of a Malignant Stupidity™ so incalculable that it would drown in its own waste products were it not for Neville Chamberlains like Richard C. Holbrooke.

The backlash to the UN’s oil for UNSC vetoes scandal was building and if we were lucky the UN would disappear down the same abyss where Jimmy Carter and Mondale were last seen.

And now Holbrooke happened. Cluelessly and guilelessly—like so many Pinkies’ causing Brain’s latest scheme to misfire or a gang of Gilligans screwing up the skipper’s latest hare-brained scheme to escape the island—he and his fellow fools are trying to rescue our nemesis.

(Thanks a lot, pal. Remind me to get even with you for that injury. In fact, why wait?)

Anyway, the New York Times did this breathless “You Go Girl” account of Holbrooke’s pro-UN activism:

"The meeting of veteran foreign policy experts in a Manhattan apartment one recent Sunday was held in strict secrecy. …

The mission, in the words of one participant, was clear: 'to save Kofi and rescue the U.N.'

At the gathering, Secretary General Kofi Annan listened quietly to three and a half hours of bluntly worded counsel from a group united in its personal regard for him and support for the United Nations.

This group is “united in its personal regard” Kofi? For what reason? Was is for Kofi’s attempt to delegitimize the U.S. war that removed Saddam by calling it an illegal war? For providing a venue for France, China and Russia to protect Saddam from the U.S.? For Rwanda’s genocide? For being complicit with networks use of the false “stolen explosives” story, broken on the eve of the election?

The group's concern was that lapses in his leadership during the past two years had eclipsed the accomplishments of his first four-year term in office and were threatening to undermine the two years remaining in his final term.

Yup just think how much more damage French can do if Kofi and the UN are still in business.

…Their larger argument, according to participants, addressed two broad needs. First, they said, Mr. Annan had to repair relations with Washington, where the Bush administration and many in Congress thought he and the United Nations had worked against President Bush's re-election.

Oooo… I get it. It was all a huge misunderstanding. It just looked like Kofi was trying to tank Bush' reelection so as to get a president elected who would be much more to his liking.

Now who were these Neville Chamberlains that are trying to save the UN? Clintonistas and UN apparatchiks and transnationalist rift raff, that’s who.

• Richard C. Holbrooke, a United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Clinton


• John G. Ruggie, assistant secretary general for strategic planning from 1997 to 2001


• Leslie H. Gelb, a professor of international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard


• Timothy E. Wirth, a former president of the Council on Foreign Relations


• Kathy Bushkin, the president of the United Nations Foundation


• Nader Mousavizadeh, executive vice president of the United Nations Foundation and a former special assistant to Mr. Annan


• Robert C. Orr, the assistant secretary general for strategic planning

We gotta keep these dolts under surveillance.