To the Moon!

From the UK Guardian: “UN despair at prospect of 'faceless' Ban Ki-Moon as secretary general”

Senior officials at the United Nations expressed despair today at the prospect of Kofi Annan being succeeded as secretary general by Ban Ki-Moon, the South Korean foreign minister.

"The mood among staff is glum," one of the officials said. "We are not very excited about the outcome." With morale low at the UN after five years dominated by divisions, deadlock and corruption, they are sceptical about Mr Ban's ability to turn the organisation round or provide the strong, inspirational leadership they had been hoping for.

The United Nations should stop worrying about collecting pennies for UNICEF and re-focus its mission on important matters like Iran’s nukes and genocide in Darfur. The first thing the new Secretary General should do is flense some of the blubber from the U.N. bureaucracy.