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Wouldn’t you like to have been a fly on the wall at THIS meeting:

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 2 - The meeting of veteran foreign policy experts in a Manhattan apartment one recent Sunday was held in strict secrecy. The guest of honor arrived without his usual retinue of aides.

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. 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. (NY Times 1/3)

I wonder what they told him? How “blunt” do you think they were?

Do you think they told him that his position had become untenable as a result of the corruption and bribe taking of his son Kojo during the oil for food program?

Do you think they asked him to resign as a result of high-level malfeasance on the part of close aides?

Do you think they advised him to pack up and head back to Nigeria as a result of the scandalous behavior of UN Peacekeeping troops in Africa and elsewhere?

Of course not. These were, after all, the vanguard of one worlders, multilateralists, and Eurocentric lickspittles who so weakened the United States during the 1990’s. The meeting was held at John Kerry’s designated Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke’s apartment.

Others in attendance were John G. Ruggie, assistant secretary general for strategic planning from 1997 to 2001 and now a professor of international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; Leslie H. Gelb, a former president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Timothy E. Wirth, the president of the United Nations Foundation, based in Washington; Kathy Bushkin, the foundation’s executive vice president; Nader Mousavizadeh, a former special assistant to Mr. Annan who left in 2003 to work at Goldman Sachs; and Robert C. Orr, the assistant secretary general for strategic planning. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, was invited but could not attend.

Being worried that the oil for food scandal, the sexual harassment charges against one of his top aides, the vote of “no-confidence” by UN unions, the criminal behavior of Peacekeepers in Africa, the ongoing genocide in the Sudan, the deliberate interference of himself and UN nuclear watchdog Mr. Baradie in the November elections, and the general impotence and hypocrisy that runs rampant throughout his administration of the United Nations might…just MIGHT…”eclipse the accomplishments of his first four years” is either a bad joke by the NY Times reporters (not likely) or self-deluded nonsense on the part of the Clintonistas who are so anxious to “save” the UN.

And what were those “accomplishments” for the first four years of Mr. Annan’s tenure?

1. While Mr. Annan’s UN dithered and wrung their hands, 400,000-800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda.

2. The UN became openly hostile to Israel, the only democracy in the middle east and coddled the Palestinian terrorists.

3. In the biggest bribery scheme in history, Saddam stole nearly $20 billion from the oil for food program, kicking back nearly $12 billion to officials in countries with seats on the Security Council.

4. Turned a blind eye to North Korea, Pakistan, and Iran as they all benefited from A.Q. Khan’s black market nuclear bazaar and developed nuclear capabilities.

Only moonbat multilateralist, one world nincompoops would think that this was a record worth admiring. Annan’s and Baradei’s blatant and deliberate interference in our elections should alone be enough to call for Mr. Annan’s scalp.

Instead, Holbrooke, Gelb, and Wirth et al tried to give Annan advice on how to bury the record, paper over differences with Washington, and pretend that Mr. Annan’s “authority” hasn’t been damaged by the most scandal plagued secretariat since Kurt “Heil Hitler” Waldeim’s administration.

Save Kofi? Save the UN?

What for?