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All things, which unfortunately are in short supply at the United Nations. He is not one for endless, wasteful and useless summits on racism, indigenous people, HIV/AIDS, halfhearted reforms, global warming etc. Or agreeing on a definition of terrorism or genocide! So Darfur smoulders on because according to UN, there is no genocide in the Sudan.
Over 800,000 mainly Tutsi people were massacred while the then point man and now UN chief, Kofi Annan twiddled his fingers.
At the United Nations, autocratic regimes such as those in Cuba, China, Libya and, Zimbabwe are regularly appointed to United Nations Human Rights Commissions Annan says he wants to scrap as it stands. Time will tell. With Bolton however, you know where he stands. At this juncture that is what the United Nations needs.
One of the people, whose name cropped up frequently whenever James Wolfensohn’s successor was discussed, is Trevor Manuel, South Africa’s Finance Minister. This man has done a good job of steering South Africa’s economic fortunes. However he does not have a university degree. Let alone a math one like Wolfowitz. The Pentagon is a large organisation. Wolfowitz is one of the leaders there and he also has wide experience as a University dean and professor.
The people who oppose Wolfowitz must come up the objective reasons to aid the Bush hating cause. Emotional outbursts like the ones we read in the media do not help their cause. The time for old tactics of labelling of those who you disagree with such as Wolfowitz, hawk or arch neo-conservative - as the BBC does - without substantiation is gone. Wolfowitz will be a hawk or neo-conservative until his detractors including the BBC disclose their own labels.
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