"America To Blame (For Everything)"
The rumors around the United Nations is that when Secretary-General Annan makes his final remarks to the Security Council on the Middle East today, he is going to let Iran and Syria off the hook and seek to blame Israel for the woes of the region.
Annan attacked the US at the Truman Library yesterday for losing its principles The gist of Annan's criticism is that America has disappointed the world by failing to live up to its own ideals
The Annan-Legacy At the UN
Kofi Annan Began as Secretary-General of the UN on Jan 1, 2002
Before Annan took office 64% of Americans believed that the UN was doing "a good job" (AP poll, Sept 2001). He started on Jan 1, 2002.
Today, two-thirds of Americans have “no confidence” (Gallup Poll) in the United Nations.
There could be numerous reasons for the swing in American popularity for the UN, but during his tenure – not all as Sec General, the following have happened — Rwanda, Sbrenica, the sex-for-food scandal of the peace-keepers, the oil-for-food scandals, the implication of the secretary-general's own son and some of his closest cronies in the oil-for-food scandal, the failure in Lebanon, the failure in Syria, the failure in Darfur, the failure of the reform of the human rights commission.
Annan will leave the UN and a large Soros charitable foundation that has likened Pres Bush to “Hitler” will finance his endeavors to the tune of $200mln.
posted by The Alchemy Blog at 12/12/2006 04:59:00 AM
3 Comments:
Ok, so what is America responsible
for, then? Can you give me some historical instances where we've publicly acknowledged our failures?
I'm not a 'Blame America First' guy, I'm a "Blame America When they Fuck Up' guy. And we've done a lot of that in the last few years. We acted like little whiny babies after 9-11, didn't learn a thing. Didn't learn anything from Vietnam, either. This 'we can do no wrong' attitude of the cons is responsible for a lot of the mess we're in now. Who says we can do no wrong? That's ridiculous.
And remember, about one third of Americans have any faith in this retard of a president, too. he makes Nixon look like a saint and Dan Quayle look like Einstein.
I can give you several instances where America has "publicly acknowledged failures" as evidenced by the US government CHANGING ITS LAWS.
Prohibition, slavery, etc.
This is the way a government of a republic acknowledges that it made a mistake.
Yes President Bush has low approval ratings.... do you know where he stands vis a vie is contemporaries? Ie Japan's Abe, Germany's Merkel, UK's Blair, France's Chirac, etc.?
Check out their approval ratings and then you might not think Bush's low approval ratings are so dramatic in context.
Comparing Bush's CURRENT approval ratings to past presidents won't work either. You must wait for Bush to be out of office for many years, so that history can judge him objectively.
Truman had similiarly low approval ratings when he left office (scandalous administration) but now is considered one of the top presidents of all time.
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