11.26.2005 | "no specific qualifications"

...For the post of Secretary General of the Untied Nations. No, that's not a typo. It seems there are quite a few worthies from around the world who would like to be in the final swimsuit competition at Turtle Bay. From the lengthy story in one of the MSM's UN cheerleaders:

There are no specific qualifications for secretary general. Officeholders have been drawn from the international diplomatic corps or, in Annan's case, from the U.N. bureaucracy. The U.N. charter states that the chief is to be appointed by the General Assembly at the recommendation of the 15-nation Security Council.

In practice, the five permanent veto-wielding members of the council -- the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain -- ultimately select the secretary general by secret ballot. Hopefuls have hailed from relatively powerless countries that have few regional rivals, and typically have never done anything to offend the five permanent council members...

Speaking as but one American, my vote is that no one be the next Secretary General. As in, abolish the stinking pile of dead fish that now fouls up my native town of New York.

We don't need the UN Secretariat; we certainly don't need another blind thief at the helm. Get us out of there; get them out of our country. Let the nation that wants to provide the next Thief-General also host the mess -- preferably in a swamp loaded with crocodiles, or on an island in a river that runs with piranhas. Lots of them.