...one letter for every dollar of graft or slander against America and Israel under his tenure (er, reign) would require me to make 112,010,800 posts with an average of 798 letters per post.

Mr. Annan was given the leadership of the world body with the backing of America and, despite the eruption on his watch of the worst scandals in the history of the world body, was kept in office by the acquiescence of America. Our taxpayers have helped underwrite a luxurious residence for him. He won the Nobel Prize for work funded by America. Yet he has chosen to depart his office with a bitter diatribe directed at the very country at whose table he for so long supped.

The gist of Mr. Annan's criticism is that America has disappointed the world by failing to live up to its own ideals. That notion in and of itself is not all that outrageous. America has always set itself the highest of goals, and it has always fallen short. America, however, has landed much higher up the hill of its ideals than the United Nations has landed on the mountain of its own ideals. That's a context in which Mr. Annan's choosing to take such a high profile parting shot at America takes on a sinister, political tone.

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