Saturday, September 13, 2008

Try doing a tour with these guys ...

The Secretary General for the UN has, shocked, discovered that the UN is ....
"We all know the U.N. is a huge bureaucracy," Ban told the assembled senior officials. "Coming here, 20 months ago, that prospect did not bother me. …

"Then I arrived in New York. There is bureaucracy, I discovered — and then there is the U.N."
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"We get too bogged down in internal or bureaucratic technicalities," he told the heads of 27 U.N. organizations, funds and programs known as the U.N. System Chief Executives Board for Coordination.

"We waste incredible amounts of time on largely meaningless matters."
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Ban told his department heads that they "squabble among themselves over posts and budgets and bureaucratic prerogatives as though as they somehow owned them,"
Heck, he could be talking about NATO, The Pentagon, ....

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