Eric Alterman nails it when it comes to critics of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan:

"If Kofi Annan's critics demanded the same level of accountability from George W. Bush they profess to want from the UN General Secretary, he would have been impeached in his first week of office. And if he were president, we be a healthier, safer, saner and far more honest nation. (Come to think of it, if we had a similar standard for Wall Street Journal pundits, they’d be out of work, too.)"