tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421292.post116294024728071934..comments2023-10-15T05:36:30.814-04:00Comments on Deadline Pundit: Bolton's last meal? We hope!Deadline Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918842534306990045noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421292.post-1162961893932539352006-11-07T23:58:00.000-05:002006-11-07T23:58:00.000-05:00It is on the button except for your comment on Ton...It is on the button except for your comment on Tony Branbury. Do you know him personally or were you just using his name to make a counterpoint vis a vis Shiner or whatever her name is. If the latter was the case, then I don't think there was a need to do so. Actually Shiner is probably much better in a two way contest with Tony and has far more experience. But the real issue here is that the process did not allow for the best candidate to be appointed (this is not an election). The best candidate was Bob Fowler of Canada but the US claims that this particular post belongs to them, and if the SG was going to give it to them in any case, then why advertise it world-wide and invite applications; there were about 80 of them were received. A high level team met in Rome to sift and screen the applications. Interviews were held. MMB hired a high-level consultant to do further work on it, when all along it was common knowledge among the cognoscenti in New York and Rome that Shiner was going to be the one. So there is still this other aspect of what UN is - and Bolton has very little to do with it. He was just an effective message boy who did his job. The problem is within the Secretariat where this kind of charade has been a common practice over the last 8 years or so: create a cumbersome process, go through it in a very exaggerated manner to fool every one, incur lots of expenditure and waste lot of staff time and resources, and then appoint the one you were going to appoint in the first instance!<BR/>Transparency UN style. Let us not blame Bolton for all our ills, let us not forget the complete absence of intestinal fortitude, etc I could go on. I have looked and I have looked hard, I did not find any heroes in this house; just mendicants and time servers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com