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...unilateral approach and the need for assistance from an institution he once wrote off as “irrelevant.” But emblematic of the Bush administration’s general policy toward the international community, the president arrived late, missing a speech from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and came up short in his own address. Rather than showing humility, Bush delivered an aloof and defensive speech. He stubbornly stuck by his dismissive stance, opposing a meaningful role for the U.N. in Iraqi reconstruction. The president asked the international community to “contribute greatly...
...months of violence, his September speech is upsetting. We have since witnessed the destructive failure of his arrogant go-it-alone approach. To be sure, at critical junctures in the past year and increasingly over the past several months, Bush has turned to the U.N. for assistance, relying on Annan to lend legitimacy to the coalition-imposed election timetable, asking the U.N. to play a role in the selection of Iraq’s next slate of leaders. But the president’s chronic inability to admit mistakes and his extreme arrogance have made a difficult reconstruction effort...
...favorite movie, Star Wars, that when he enters, he mutters, "Aaah, this is the mother ship.'' His working space is cramped, just 10 ft. by 12 ft., with a small, imitation-leather couch and two chairs facing his desk. As the special envoy of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Brahimi, 70, has been holed up in this office...
...Even if Annan isn’t directly held responsible for the failures of this department, he’s certainly an unexceptional administrator. To boot, a scandal to rival liberals’ favorite refrains about Bush’s oil ties is in the works currently at Rockefeller Center. Instead of alleged conflict of interests with Halliburton, however, the recent scandal from the Oil-for-Food program is quite real. In this instance, while Saddam was skimming money off his side of the budget to pay sympathizers in other countries that kept his regime afloat diplomatically, Kofi made sure...
...whereas those upset with Dick Cheney’s secret energy powwows have taken him to court, Annan is in the comfortable position of having the authority (since the U.N. hardly has the types of checks and balances legitimate governmental organizations do) to suppress whatever reports he want. And, in this case, 50 Oil-for-Food audit reports have underwent this same fate—even as Annan declares he knows nothing about the whole situation...