Kofi Annan

You know what really upsets me? What really strikes a blow to my hope for the future? For my children's future?
Not crime. Not religious intolerance. Not war. Not famine. Not even reality TV.
What really makes me lose sleep at night is knowing that we live in a world where a position with such potential for greatness, such as the Secretary-General of the United Nations, can be corrupted and wasted with the election of a grade-a douchebag like Kofi Annan.
Forget the bribery and backdoor-deals. (Though I'm sure they tie right in with the current events, here.)
This man is either completely corrupt, or completely out of touch with reality. Frankly, neither is any less dangerous, and either causes me great consternation.
But let's get to Kofi's latest act of douchebaggery, shall we?

From his UN office in New York on Tuesday, Annan released a statement calling for an investigation into "the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a U.N. Observer post in southern Lebanon".
Annan is referring to a UN "peacekeeping" position in Khiam, in southern Lebanon that was apparently hit by Israeli artillery and aerial fire, resulting in the deaths of four UN "military observers".
Annan went on to state, "This coordinated artillery and aerial attack on a long established and clearly marked U.N. post at Khiam occurred despite personal assurances given to me by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that U.N. positions would be spared Israeli fire." and "I call on the government of Israel to conduct a full investigation into this very disturbing incident and demand that any further attack on U.N. positions and personnel must stop".

What Annan did not make any statements about is why Irsaeli defense forces were firing on this position to start with. Could it possibly be the fact that this is not only a UN outpost, but also the location of "Khiam Fort", a Hezbollah stronghold, replete with gun and artillery emplacements? How about that it's also a suspected storage site for some of the missiles that Hezbollah has recently been firing at Haifa? And that all of this was going on within full view of these UN "military observers" without a peep?
Might that have had something to do with it?

Nah... the Israeli's just really hate blue helmets, that's all.

Hrmm... there is another possibility, you know.
Given the UN's supposed purpose for being there, and how absolutely nothing has ever been done by them, there... would it have been so wrong for Israel to have simply assumed that the UN had abandoned the place, years ago?

Look.. the UN, at least under Kofi Annan, is a joke. Everyone knows it. I think Kofi even knows it, deep down. That's why he's given up on actually doing anything good for the world, and has apparently decided to just use his position to score himself some mad bling every chance he gets.

At this point, UN Peasekeepers are, at best, an annoyance, and at worst, a major roadblock to actual peace anywhere.
If they insist on sitting idly by and not doing so much as making a phone call to say, "Hey, ummm... there's some bad guys over here doing some bad stuff. Should we leave so real men can do something about it?", then screw 'em. They're nothing more than human shields... and that shit is getting really old. Israel has the right idea. This is war, not a groundbreaking for a new mall. You want to get in the way? We'll shoot through you.

But there is an upside, I suppose. As long as Hezbollah thinks they can hide behind a UN flag, and as long as the UN has no prblem letting them do so, at least it makes the terrorist scumbags easier to find.

...just aim the bombs at the blue helmets.

Kofi, you're in the way of actual progress... and worse, you're helping the barbarians of the world to drag us into their 12th century cesspool.
Go cash in your hidden Swiss bank account and retire, you douchebag. Hopefully, to southern Lebanon.

FINAL JUDGEMENT: LEVEL 1 DOUCHEBAG!