Annan speech to the UN and Bush speech to the UN. Bush persists in citing falsehoods; Annan cites plain realities. Bush looks back, to justify; Annan looks forward. I have always thought of Kofi Annan as a weak and ineffective UN Secretary General. But given the alternatives, he seems to have a real vision in the context of the very realpolitik UN.
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