Audits that would make managers accountable have been inadequate. U.N. audits are performed infrequently and then only by unqualified individuals. U.N. Trust Funds are slated for specific purposes, removing land mines, for example. Equally odd is the continued employment of Clinton appointees at the United States Mission to the United Nations. Mr. Annan himself is part of the problem.
People are policy.
M.D.B. Carlisle was assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. Daniel Oliver was chairman of the Federal Trade Commission from 1986 to 1989.