Vice's Tribute Personified

Kofi Annan entreats all and sundry not to "forget" the world's poor. Would that he had followed his own advice when his UN minions (and who knows who else!) were lining their pockets with oil for food bribes while those in the Congo, Rwanda, Iraq and elsewhere suffered and perished.

If La Rochefoucauld was right in his assessment that "hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue" -- well, then Annan is paying quite a tribute.

What a hypocrite.