Charlie Rose

BZinCA  09/14/2012 04:58 PM Report

I LOVE watching your show because of all your interesting guests and your knowledge and good questions so I tolerate the fact that you talk over & interrupt most of them. But this was really noticeable while interviewing Mr. Kofi Annan because I really wanted to hear what he had to say several times that you cut him off.

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SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/12/2012 02:08 AM Report

He tells us he is chairing a global commission on the integrity of elections that will be issuing a report in London.

Kofi, please buy a plane ticket for Ohio now and be there a week before our election.

Thank you.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/12/2012 02:06 AM Report

Very busy indeed.

At least his voice is very calming even if his life is very frenetic.

In fact, I dozed off the first time and had to go back.

Perhaps, he should sell CDs with his voice to be played at bedtime: "Peace, Peace, Peace, Peace . . ."

SharkswithfrikingLazers  09/12/2012 01:54 AM Report

LAMB: Do you have an opinion of Kofi Annan?

HOROWITZ: You know, it’s funny. I thought when we started the movie that he would be kind of like the bogeyman in the film. And what I ended up finding, the more we started talking to people and researching and shooting, was he really isn’t. He’s not a bad man. I don’t think he was corrupt. I don’t think so. I just think he has the same moral blindness that a lot -- that infects a lot of these -- a lot of these U.N. diplomats.

http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1407

wsfinkelstein  09/11/2012 11:17 PM Report

Mr. Rose,

The interruption of guests is making it increasingly difficult to watch your show. Your treatment of someone of the stature Kofi Annan verged on rudeness. I would hope that you permit guests to complete their statements before making your own.

Max83  09/11/2012 01:22 PM Report

Thank you very much for this honest conversation. I enjoyed Kofi Annan's balanced perspective on world events.

My family on my father's side has a a special relationship to Mr. Annan's home country of Ghana. One of my ancestors, Paul Erdmann Isert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdmann_Isert , traveled to Ghana in the 18th century and wrote a book about his time there called '' Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Columbia (Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia)''. The original manuscript from 1788 is still with our family.

Also on the first minutes of the interview and all the projects Mr. Annan is involved in Africa, some of you might be interested in this video that shows what it involved in this type of work. One of my father's friends from Canada is married to a Ghanaian and does a lot of consulting work in Africa on these types of projects:

''Beyond the Paycheck Placer Dome Care Project in Southern Africa''

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMMqW3Qizk

''Placer Dome's Care project was the first private sector project to ever win a World Bank Development Innovation Award. The project, which started out focused on mitigating the impact of a major retrenchment and restructuring at the South Deep Mine in 1999, ended up spearheading the Southern African mining industry's HIV/AIDS programming and being credited with changing the face of the South African mining industry. Placer Dome was the first major foreign investor in the South African mining industry after Apartheid. Placer Dome came to South Africa with a world leading sustainability policy and the application of this policy, along with leadership from the Placer Dome corporate and South African teams and CSR consulting firm Wayne Dunn & Associates, resulted in this paradigm shifting program.''

REMant  09/11/2012 11:28 AM Report

One of the more sensible and informative hours here.

You can only make policing effective when ppl know it will be backed by overwhelming force, so one has to decide which is worse: letting ppl fight it out, or tempting tyranny.

Local sovereignty, like aristocracy and corporations, is required to balance the coalition of leader and people we variously call monarchy or democracy. These are the questions raised in the formation of this nation, and they cannot be ignored. And despite the high marks given to Obama's co-operation, this is an area where his authoritarian proclivities show.

Pushed by the US and people like Samantha Power, the current national security advisor, "Responsibility to Protect" was agreed to by the UN under Mr Annan's watch in 2005. It holds nations responsible for shielding their own populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and related crimes against humanity and requires the international community to step in if this obligation is not met. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect) The proposition clearly favors multicultural or cosmopolitan government, and is a step beyond peace-keeping.

Despite denials that this infringes on sovereignty, Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly chastised the Security Council for failing to protect the Syrian populace and invoking Chapter VII, and apparently confounds a failure of peace with a failure of policing. Both sides in that conflict have resisted such attempts. That the backers of this concept persist suggests they wish to impose their own will. French agents, incidentally, appear to have smuggled Gen Tiass out of Syria, but according to Aljazeera (not an impartial source on this matter) even he thinks such intervention won't work.

Obama announced in remarks on "Holocaust Remembrance Day" that he had used executive authority to create the "White House Atrocities Prevention Board" to be headed by Power to implement Responsibility to Protect. The order recognizes genocide and other mass atrocities committed by foreign powers as a "core national security interest and core moral responsibility."

While it would nice to consider this in the same light as the Constitutional guarantee of a republic form of govt to the American states, it would seem to be rather that what was called child-saving in the Progressive era (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_savers) has been promoted to a matter of defense. We no longer just worry about what those Islamo-fascists may do to us, but to their women, children and camels, as well. In other words, it provides a rationale for intervention and for moral crusades akin to those of 19th c Whig reformers and their Progressive and 20th c behaviorist counterparts. One wonders, however, what they would say or do about events in places like Gaza.