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shawn703 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 08:48 PM
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U.N. Official Calls U.S. 'Ungainly Giant'
Secretary General Kofi Annan's chief of staff called the United States an "ungainly giant" that only plays by its own rules, criticizing the U.N.'s largest donor in unusually strong terms Sunday.

Mark Malloch Brown said the U.S. contributed most to the development of international law in the last century, but was now the country most opposed to international constraints.

"This ungainly giant of a nation that has led the world in advancing freedom, democracy and decency, cannot quite accept membership in the global neighborhood association, and the principle of all neighborhoods - that it must abide by others' rules as well as its own," Malloch Brown said at the commencement address to Pace University law students.

Malloch Brown's comments, provided to The Associated Press by the university, were unusually forceful for an organization whose leaders tend to abide by an unwritten rule of not criticizing member nations.


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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/may/22/052206961.html
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 09:15 PM
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1. The harder they come ... n/t
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 09:34 PM
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2.  U.N. Official Calls U.S. 'Ungainly Giant'
U.N. Official Calls U.S. 'Ungainly Giant'

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NEW YORK - Secretary General Kofi Annan's chief of staff called the United States an "ungainly giant" that only plays by its own rules, criticizing the U.N.'s largest donor in unusually strong terms Sunday.

Mark Malloch Brown said the U.S. contributed most to the development of international law in the last century, but was now the country most opposed to international constraints.

"This ungainly giant of a nation that has led the world in advancing freedom, democracy and decency, cannot quite accept membership in the global neighborhood association, and the principle of all neighborhoods — that it must abide by others' rules as well as its own," Malloch Brown said at the commencement address to Pace University law students.


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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 09:34 PM
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3. there's the UN call'n us out again! get BOLTON on the horn... he'll fix it
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Emillereid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 09:34 PM
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4. Wonder if Galloway is inspiring some backbone in others?
Whatever -- it''s music to my ears! Speak truth to power -- or in this case the b errant, spolied, arrogant boy-king and his faithful minions!
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 09:34 PM
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5. LOL I am guessing 'ungainly' is diplomatic language for
'bullying'.
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thebigidea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-22-05 09:36 PM
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6. i'm sure they'll find a way to bully him out of there
meanwhile, just about anything the Bushies say about the UN is many times nastier.
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