Comments on: Ban Ki-moon, New United Nations Chief http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/10/10/ban-ki-moon-new-united-nations-chief/ A Fresh Look at News, Politics and History Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:03:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Stokely http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/10/10/ban-ki-moon-new-united-nations-chief/#comment-216 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:12:00 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/10/10/ban-ki-moon-new-united-nations-chief/#comment-216 So in 60 years there hasn’t been one American or Canadian capable of serving as UN Secretary-General? This is a problem. If the UN is to lead the planet, why is its leader always from a little nowhere country? That feels like a “don’t make waves” approach, not bold forward-thinking leadership. Another way of highlighting this problem would be to ask - why aren’t 192 member nations desperately pleading with the US to provide UN leadership? The answer to that is our own failure to lead in the direction of global peace and prosperity. We are a global superpower of backward-thinking little nationalists. So in 60 years there hasn’t been one American or Canadian capable of serving as UN Secretary-General? This is a problem. If the UN is to lead the planet, why is its leader always from a little nowhere country? That feels like a “don’t make waves” approach, not bold forward-thinking leadership.

Another way of highlighting this problem would be to ask - why aren’t 192 member nations desperately pleading with the US to provide UN leadership? The answer to that is our own failure to lead in the direction of global peace and prosperity. We are a global superpower of backward-thinking little nationalists.

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