Leave 'em Laughing: Kofi Annan Resigns......................from Dan Friedman

[If it weren’t for the thousands of innocents killed, the slapstick diplomacy of the striped-pants set over the past few years would have us rolling in the aisles. At the very least, we should have learned not to take them seriously anymore. df]

Editorial of The New York Sun | August 2, 2012

Kofi Annan Resigns

“Here is a man who, by his own account, came to America nearly 50 years ago to study in Minnesota. He then spent something like 44 years in or close to the United Nations, rising to the top of an organization that has been funded, through thick and thin, by the ordinary American taxpayer, who underwrites the United Nations to the tune of $5.3 billion a year. Mr. Annan was given the leadership of the world body with the backing of America and, despite the eruption on his watch of the worst scandals in the history of the world body, was kept in office by the acquiescence of America. Our taxpayers have helped underwrite a luxurious residence for him. He won the Nobel Prize for work funded by America. Yet he has chosen to depart his office with a bitter diatribe directed at the very country at whose table he for so long supped.”