One of new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's more puzzling appointments has been former United Nations Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown to hold the Asia, Africa, and United Nation's portfolios. You may recall Mr. Malloch Brown's stirring defense of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's administration during the Oil For Food bribery scandal - made all the more ridiculous when revelation after revelation surfaced of Annan's spectacular mismanagemnet of the secretariat and the complicity of UN officials in the scheme right under Annan's nose. But Malloch Brown's most visible moment in America came when he basically called flyover America a bunch of slack jawed yahoos for not being cheerleaders for the UN. This proved too much for former UN Ambassador John Bolton who called Malloch Brown out in some extraordinary remarks to the press. He referred to the speech as "anti-American" and that Malloch Brown's remarks were "condescending and patronizing." In...(Read Full Post)