UN Special Representative in Afghanistan Kai Eide today publicly condemned his former aide, former US Ambassador Peter Galbraith, saying that the growing concerns about the UN’s neutrality in the nation were the fault of Galbraith, not him, and saying the whole thing was a “distraction.”
Galbraith was fired last week following a very public falling out with Eide over the UN Mission’s lack of candor regarding the massive fraud in the August presidential election. Following his ouster Galbraith insisted that not only was Eide bias in favor of Karzai, he had ordered members of his staff including Galbraith to cover up the extent of the fraud.
Eide confirmed that he ordered Galbraith and others not to share data about the election, but insisted it wasn’t because of any bias. The UN reportedly has evidence that as many as a third of all Karzai votes were fraudulent.
Yet no matter how much Eide protests his neutrality, this week’s revelation of new rules from the United Nations regarding how to handle vote fraud, which virtually guarantee a Karzai victory without a run-off vote, will continue to inflame tensions and raise speculation that Karzai’s victory was a product of international expediency more than legitimate popular support.
Times are such, that one is rarely disappointed in the depth of one's pessimism, with any aspect of governance. However this open feud between the top two U.N. officials in Afghanistan serves to illustrate how utterly corrupt the U.N. is. BUT, hey, with the probable corrupting parties holding the trump card of veto, there is no chance any truth or justice will come of any deliberations of wrong.
Power corrupts and having a veto is the ultimate power seems to have taken us a world farther in corruption. How does it work, do the permanent members just call on the phone to request a result?
Miraculously, there seems to be a whistle blower. But, no problem the veto trumps any result any inquiry….. As the U.N. moves on with it's practice of handing this or that country over to those who pay for their private jets and endless meals credits, we have their corrupt ways in the spotlight.