It's Time To Add Syria To Kofi Annan's Long List Of Failures

The corrupt and incompetent combination!

It's Time To Add Syria To Kofi Annan's Long List Of Failures | The New Republic

• Jonathan Schanzer, Claudia Rosett
• April 5, 2012
• It should have raised red flags when both Syria and Russia approved of Kofi Annan’s February 23 appointment as the United Nations-Arab League Joint Special Envoy (JSE) to Syria. But after bickering world powers repeatedly failed to agree on an emissary to broker an end to the killing spree in which Bashar al-Assad has killed more than 9,000 people, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, was content to laud Annan as “an outstanding choice.”
  Certainly the Ghana-born Annan comes loaded with credentials: former U.N. secretary general, winner of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, and recipient of a host of other awards, positions, and honorary degrees. But a closer look at Annan’s record reveals that he has often exacerbated crises, rather than solving them. We can now add Syria to this list.
  THE STRING OF FAILURES begins in 1994: (listed)
  1994 Annan, then head of peacekeeping-

  -U.N.’s peacekeeping forces in Rwanda

  
  

  -another mass murder, this time in Srebrenica

  
  
  as U.N. chief, from 1997-2006-

  -Oil-for-Food evolved into one of the most corrupt failures 

  
  

  -Syria banked some $3 billion in Saddam’s illicit funds

  
  

   -Benon Sevan, was accused by the U.N.’s own inquiry of having pocketed money from the program

  
  

  -Kojo Annan, profited from working for a Swiss company

  
  
  Syria-

  -Annan is tipping the scales in favor of a murderous regime

  
  
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