I saw that on TV while we were having dinner. I wondered - there's this rather frightening war going on in Israel/Lebanon and he's kissing up to these people??
(I also kept hoping he's slip and say "sh!t." LOL)
Someone QUICK...tell Kofi to STFU.
He is whining about the numbers of LEBANESE who have been displaced and killed, wounded...evacuated and are "refugees"...
I DETEST this man.
Now wouldn't that put the drive by media into a tailspin! Of course, they didn't get much mileage out of the first "sh!t"! They were hoping but....nobody cared! LOL
This was arranged well before the war, allegra. Besides, he can do two things at once...he must do so in other areas of his job.
So the question is, why speak there at any time? He has his reasons. He knows he will be bashed by his some of his own supporters for doing so, and still he takes the hit. I admire that, whether I like or don't like his going there.
One thing he has done is to have MANY connections to the Black Community, including the more economically conservative and apolitical evangelical ones.
He might just have the largest, big-picture worldview of any leader in our history. That doesn't always translate well into the here and now or into the public political arena.