He laments the current ineffectual state of the United Nations. ("The United Nations is the only organization that holds annual meetings to commemorate its failures.") He apparently worked as an intern at the U.N. at the age of 17, and is now a Fellow at the Brookings Institution. The first half of the article is spent discussing the fact that the U.N. seems best suited to producing reports on how to make itself more effective and relevant. He ponders the current lame duckishness of the current tenure of Kofi Annan as Secretary General. He also laments the current lowest common denominator nature of all of the people currently being talked about as potential successors.
His key point is that he is calling for Bill Clinton to be nominated for the Secretary General of the UN. It's an intriguing idea. Excepting the domestic contingent of Clinton-haters, The Big Dog is about as close to the ideal of a global rockstar as exists today. And whether you like him or not, one has to admit, he's one of the most silver-tongued devils who has ever lived. There really aren't that many symbols of American government who command the global respect and admiration that Bill does.
I have to admit, if it was an elected position, I'd totally vote for Clinton for U.N. Secretary General.
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