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Posted by: Brian Baker12/11/2006 11:23 PM
A Washington Post article today about the final speech of retiring UN Secretary General Kofi Annan states,

"[i]n a farewell address delivered at Harry Truman's presidential library in Independence, Missouri, Annan praised the 33rd U.S. president's legacy, and quoted Truman in cautioning that "no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others."

America is a great and powerful nation.  From the end of WWII  through the year 2000, America worked hard to help the poor and needy of the world through the UN.  The concept of "Noblesse Oblige" or the obligation of honorable, generous, and responsible behavior associated with high social rank or birth, guided America's generosity toward the world.

Somewhere, somehow, this guiding principle has been extinguished in American Foreign Policy over the last six years.

We are now a nation of go-it-alone Foreign Policy.  We seem to think that everyone else in the world is stupid and that we are the chosen and know automatically what is the correct approach.

The fiasco in Iraq should wake up America to the ignorance and short sightedness of its ways.

Kofi Annan made some mistakes during his tenure, no doubt, but he was a stalwart for helping those who could not help themselves.  He has been tharted at almost every turn over the last six years, and the world has suffered tremendous damage because of that.

He will be missed.
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