Twittering twat

You can pronounce that whichever way you like. Ban has always struck me as someone lacking in any real ability and quite shallow. You can absolutely guarantee that anything he has to say on any topic will be trite and jejune. How he was thought suitable to be secretary general of the UN, other than because of those traits I suppose, is beyond me. Full article at Spiked Online, via RWDB. The Twitter page, though, is a different phenomenon entirely. Updated a few times a day, it ought to be a bit more interesting. And indeed it is, although perhaps not for the right reasons. Each tweet/twit, following on from the statement ‘WeMustDisarm’, begins with a ‘because…’, after which Ban Ki-Moon gives whatever reason for nuclear disarmament that happens to have grabbed him or his intern that hour. Here are a few examples: WeMustDisarm: ‘because we can’t wait 4 a perfect security environment 2 come along, rather advancing disarmament will promote security. pls RT’ ‘because in add 2 killing millions a nuke war wld cause an environmental crisis of epic proportions. pls RT’ ‘because nuke’s very existence = more chance of use in war, terrorism or by accident. pls RT’ ‘because as #UN SecGen I know a nuke war wld b the ultimate catastrophe. pls RT’ ‘because KIJong is bad man. No LOL:( pls RT.’ ‘because #UN SecGen had AllBrn for breakfast. Again. WTF. Dnt RT’ Okay, the final two twits are fabrications, but all the others are real. There’s no getting away from it: the chief of the United Nations, a man nominally responsible for providing a framework for international governance, is made to sound like a hyperactive 13-year-old desperate to impress a rather weary teacher. ‘Shhhh… Because nothing, Ban.’ More embarrassing still is the sheer dearth of people interested in his 140-characters-or-less insights and statements.

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