Via Kriston at BTD, here's a brief article about Bill Clinton's aspiration to succeed Kofi Annan as UN Secretary General in 2006. Kriston lustily imagines how the right would react to his candidacy, even going so far as to suggest the piece is just "anti-Clinton porn for the rabid right." But I think it's worth considering this on the merits as well, because the possibilities are huge: Clinton is the greatest political talent of this era, and he'd bring new credibility and limitless optimism to that organization. It would make the UN more powerful right at the moment when internationalism is losing ground in the world, and (despite the contempt Americans seem to have for it) internationalism is just what we need right now.
Anyway, I don't know how serious this is, but I love the idea.
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