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# Questions of Leadership
- URL: https://www.kevinmeyer.com/questions-of-le/
- Published: 2008-06-21T04:09:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-10T13:52:59.000Z
- Author: Kevin Meyer
- Tags: Leadership & Execution, #Migrated-1752356847400, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-12 14:48

Sometimes you just have to roll your eyes in wonder.

> *The General Assembly of the United Nations voted this week to elect Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann as its new president. Readers with a long memory will recall Father D'Escoto (he's a Catholic priest) as Nicaragua's foreign minister during the Sandinista regime of the 1980s. He's also the winner of the 1985 Lenin Prize. Only at the U.N. does that count as a recommendation.* 
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> *Speaking after his election, Father d'Escoto called for greater "democracy" at the U.N. – an odd remark coming from a former servant of a communist dictatorship.*

Hey, let's make it a two-fer!

> *The U.N. also voted to name the government of Burma – which otherwise has been busy preventing humanitarian assistance from reaching hundreds of thousands of its own needy victims of last month's devastating cyclone – as one of the Assembly's vice presidents. Only at the U.N. is this not considered an embarrassment.*

And some people still wonder why confidence in the UN by the U.S. public is at an all-time low. Perhaps the UN needs a pre-employment test like many companies have, except that a couple other questions would be added.