Ban Ki Moon, In One Quote
The Telegraph reports on the case of a Chinese diplomat working as Ban’s Undersecretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, who recently staggered into the glow of Diogenes’s lamp while on a retreat for U.N. commissars in Austria, with Ban Ki Moon in attendance.
“I know you never liked me Mr. Secretary-General ““ well, I never liked you, either,” said Mr Sha as Mr Ban looked on, smiling and nodding awkwardly during the 15-minute toast attended by the UN’s top brass.
“You’ve been trying to get rid of me,” said 62-year-old Mr Sha according to the senior UN official present, “You can fire me anytime, you can fire me today.”
Oh, don’t worry. He won’t.
Later in his impromptu speech Mr Sha turned to an American colleague, singling out Bob Orr, from the executive office of the secretary-general.
“I really don’t like him: he’s an American and I really don’t like Americans,” he said.
A second senior UN official who was at the dinner said: “It went on for about ten or fifteen minutes but it felt like an hour.”
I’d just like to make note of the implicit promise that everyone would fall in love with us all over again now that a certain neocon cowboy has gone back to Texas.
In 1983 I had a student who always wore a warmup suit to school. The suit had Canda and the maple leaf symbol on it. One day I asked him why he wore Canadian sweats. He answered that his parents worked in the Middle East (sorry, I can’t remember the country) and they were told NOT to wear anything that would identify them as American, but rather identify them as Canadian, English, etc. because of some peoples’ hatred of Americans. The point is we have been hated for a long time, regardless of who is in the White House.