Ban Ki-moon: Just another shill

 August 24, 2009
 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 
Original Source:  http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_639464.html    

Ban Ki-moon, dubbed the Invisible Man by The Wall Street Journal, has of late become quite transparent indeed as a shill for the failed policies of the United Nations.

About halfway through his first term as secretary-general, Mr. Ban stands by his self-professed quiet diplomacy when decisive leadership is so desperately needed. And instead of rightful condemnation, he condones U.N. lunacy.

Following Iran's rogue election of a world miscreant, the titular head of Turtle Bay reportedly dispatched a letter of congratulations to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Splattered by the blowback, the U.N. quickly issued an explanation, saying Mr. Ban's letter wasn't an endorsement but an expression of hope that Iran and the United Nations will continue to cooperate closely in addressing regional and global issues. 

Obviously that excludes Iran's nuclear ambitions, against which the United Nations has been utterly useless. 

Meanwhile Ban has been anything but quiet in the U.N.'s fear-mongering over global warming, telling an audience at an economic forum that humanity has just four months ... to secure the future of our planet. Only four months because the science of the U.N.'s climate canard rapidly is crumbling as more nations reject its tax-looting, industry-crippling diktats.

Ban Ki-moon continues the unremarkable tradition of his predecessors, giving the United States and like-minded nations more reason to abandon this ship of fools.