The Bag-Man

Kofi Annan’s own office signed off on dozens of oil-for-food contracts that patently hadn’t the slightest thing to do with food.

This is what the U.N. is reduced to—a bagman for the corruption of the entire world. What else can you say about deals in which crooked members of the U.N.’s board of directors sell tyrants the blessing of legitimacy, a license to violate every principle embodied here? At least Enron didn’t claim the moral authority to pass resolutions.

You also have to wonder about the cryptic contracts for Russian “mechanical equipment” and “yogurt homogenizer.