Irony Corner
I have never been one of those who regards Bill Clinton as an icon of the progresive movement. The man who executed a brain damaged person so as too look tough on law and order, the man who abused his position of power with an intern, is hardly a model for progressives to look up to.
But this timehe has trult lost it. Looking to the future, he has suggested that Tony Blair might have a future as Secretary General of the United Nations. Yes, the same Tony Blair who gave a V sign to the UN when it failed to endorse his tawdry war, and sent the missiles of death into Iraq.
It is not just Iraq that shows Blair's unsuitability to this role. As I shall be posting in the next few days, this is the Prime Minister who has shown less respect for an independent judiciary than any of his predecessors.
Making Blair the next Secretary General of the United Nations is about as sensible as putting Dick Turpin in charge of the Post Office. A crazy world has just got a little bit crazier.
posted by Paul Martin at 9:32 AM
3 Comments:
Do you always have to have agreed with an organisation to lead it?
I think Tony Blair would make an excellent sec general, even though he would never I'm sure be offered it. I very muhc think the UN needs a strong yet concilliatory leader, able to say when he disagrees with others, yet still hold the relationship...
Steve
12:48 PM
Steve, I agree with you that past differences with an organisation do no necessarily disbar a person from later being that organisation's leader.
Th reason I oppose Tony Blair's appointment to such a post is that I feel he is insufficiently distant from the US neo con agenda and a feeling I get also from domestic agenda and his failure to oppose rendition etc on international stage that he is cavalier with evidence in justice matters.
I suspect that he will stand with the big stick of Washington. As one who spent 15 years as a Labour Party member, it saddens me not to wish a member of that party into such a position.
6:07 PM
I understand that, and I agree that a godo Secretary Gen would shy away from an auto association with the US - good point...
Steve
12:51 PM
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