He couldn’t have done this before a war devastated South Lebanon?

After weeks of silence regarding the kidnapped Israeli soldiers, the execrable Kofi Annan has suddenly popped up to announce that he’s here to help:

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday he would appoint a secret envoy to work for the release of the two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Lebanon’s Hizbollah group triggered a month-long war.

Israeli officials said Annan’s role was to secure the release of the soldiers, not to mediate. Hizbollah gave a cautious response, backing only indirect negotiations to secure an exchange of prisoners from both sides.

“The two sides have accepted the efforts of the secretary-general to help solve this problem,” Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia. “I will appoint a person to work secretly with the two sides … I will not announce his name today or tomorrow,” he said, according to an Arabic interpreter.

What a miserable excuse for a human being Annan is.  In a way, he’s the perfect embodiment of an irredeemably corrupt organization.  I often long for his resignation, only to stop myself when I realize that the foul UN body will appoint in his place someone precisely like him or, if possible, even worse.