Take a Hike Mr. Brown

Kofi Annan's right hand man, soon to retire, laid into the US in a major speech. He agrees on the need for reform, which the US is demanding, but suggests we aren't doing enough to bring it about. So what does he do? Attacks the US.

Naturally.

Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown suggests.... Forbes:

"Much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News."

"The U.N.'s role is in effect a secret in Middle America even as it is highlighted in the Middle East and other parts of the world," Malloch Brown said.

I hate to disabuse you of your notions of us heartland folk, Mr. Brown, but we know all too well what the UN has been up to. Here is Forbes again:

The dispute underscored the difficult relationship between the U.N. and the United States in recent years. That "unhappy marriage," as Malloch Brown called it, has been strained by sexual abuse by U.N. peacekeepers, fraud and corruption by officials involved in the U.N. oil-for-food program, and the Security Council's refusal to back the invasion of Iraq.

We know the UN is dominated by dictators and incompetents. The US and Japan are holding back funding until reforms are implemented, and have been waiting for some time. Now we have an unprecedented attack by a senior UN official on the American people.

As we say around here, take a hike Mr. Brown.

UPDATE: Just browsed some more and found this on Powerline, with one of my favorite Fox reporters, Eric Shawn, who has written a book blasting the UN, "The U.N. Exposed: How the United Nations Sabotages American's Security and Fails the World".

Guess Mr. Brown is worried about his pension.

He should worry some more.