The liberals’ favorite place of worship, the United Nations, was bereft of its benevolent leader when the earthquake and tsunami struck south east Asia on Sunday December 26. When Kofi Annan finally emerged on the following Thursday to save the world yet again, like he did in Rwanda after 800,000 people were slaughtered in a genocide, he tried to explain himself.
It took Fox News Channel’s Jonathan Hunt to ask the question, since all the other reporters were stuck on the whole “why is Bush organizing an international coalition when he should be going it alone?”—or some canny line of questioning like that.
“I think a lot of people are asking exactly why you waited three days on vacation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, before you decided to fly back to New York in the face of this extraordinary crisis,” Hunt asked during a Thursday press conference in New York.
“Could you give us a full explanation of your thinking on that?” Hunt continued. “Secondly, what kind of signal does that 72-hour delay send to the nations to which you are now appealing for greater help?”
Annan generally insinuated in his cagey reply that he could do his job from anywhere with his hands tied behind his back—much like women and children in Sudan are doing right this second, I presume.
According to the Telegraph in London…
UN officials went to great lengths to conceal the whereabouts of Kofi Annan, the organisation’s general secretary, who was on holiday when the tsunami struck and did not surface in New York until Thursday.
In fact, it was revealed that, Mr Annan spent Christmas at the holiday home of James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank and a critic of the Bush administration, who owns a 160-acre ranch in the resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Only a handful of Mr Annan’s most trusted advisers were allowed to know his location. One official said: “He did not want to be seen frolicking in the snow. It wouldn’t look good.”
Imagine that. The U.N. leader and the leader of the World Bank, who constantly deride George Bush and America as the capitalist Satan, gleefully enjoying the fruits of capitalism at the ranch of the head of the World Bank, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. USA. While tens of thousands of poor people were dying.
Canada’s leader was vacationing in Morocco, and instantly flew home after news of the world disaster—and arrived in Ottawa on the same Thursday that Annan arrived. By then, President Bush had already organized the international coalition of four nations.
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