The Cowardly Lion

Here is one more example of the complete impotence of the United Nations and Koffi ``Klutch`` Annan. He reminds me of the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz; all bark and absolutely no bite.

Annan has been annanymous on this; he should have taken the lead in the U.N. Security Council long ago. Yet he dumped this on the United States (remember Jack Danforth?) as he, and the entire United Nations, once again demanded that we take the lead in a regional problem.

France and the member states of the U.N. were so fired up against our military involvement in Iraq, yet want our involvement in Africa. The French (and British) have had traditional relations with this region, and they are the obvious choice to lead an African coalition to deal with this. The failure of France to actually LEAD on an issue proves how worthless and weak they really are; they are great at backstabing US when we try to lead, but they offer no help on any issue on their own. They have troops in Chad which could easily be brought to bear, but they are too cowardly to act.

Will somebody please tell me just WHY we are still bothering with them and why anyone still takes the U.N. seriously?