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...degree recipients exceptionally fortunate. The University could hardly have chosen a figure of greater distinction and importance to speak to its graduates at the June ceremonies. One of the world’s most influential diplomats and, together with the U.N., the winner of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, Annan is an especially authentic voice for encouraging public service among some of the country’s best young thinkers. And his invitation is an honorable move on Harvard’s part to draw more attention to the importance of international coalition building...
...administration is relying to author a political formula for the hand-over of partial sovereignty in June warned that further military action would imperil his best efforts. "Violent military action by an occupying power against inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse," UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned Wednesday...
...United Nations - on whom the Coalition is now relying to produce a workable political formula for ending the occupation of Iraq - is seeing things quite differently. "The more the occupation is seen as taking steps that harm civilians and the population, the greater the ranks of the resistance grows," Annan said Wednesday. Rather than embracing the Coalition's view of a small group of thugs stopping a democratic transition, UN officials - and other diplomats - see the makings of a nationalist challenge to occupation, to which they say there is no military solution. Some 52 of Britain's top retired diplomats...
Should we hold Annan responsible? Well, at the start of the Iraq war last spring, he called for swift resumption of the Oil-for-Food program. As the Wall Street Journal’s Claudia Rosett, who broke the story, has put it, “We are left to contemplate a U.N. system that has engendered a secretary-general either so dishonest that he should be dismissed or so incompetent that he is truly dangerous—and should be dismissed...
Against this backdrop of growing irrelevance, Kofi Annan will speak at commencement. But a quarter century from now, contra Solzhenitsyn, it’s unlikely that anyone will be talking about what he said at Harvard in June 2004. We may instead be talking about how Annan’s organization was ultimately beached by the tides of its own corruption and institutional failure...