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During the dog and pony show known as the opening session for the United Nation's 64th General Assembly, Holocaust-denier and illegitimate leader of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stopped talking about obliteration of the Jewish state long enough to ironically state "Human beings are all God's creatures and are all endowed with dignity and respect." Stephen Harper and Bejnamin Netanyahu led the condemnation for nations hostile towards Israel and became leaders of the free world, if but for a day.
This same opening session also featured Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi who stretched 15-minutes of speaking time into a soul-torturing 75-minute long spiel during which point his translator shouted "I can't take it any more!" into a live mic and collapsed on the spot. Our own President Obama finally stepped up his game - though we wish he would have done so before Stephen Harper, but we'll take what we can get - and shared some stern words concerning Iran's recently disclosed second nuclear weaponry production facility.
It would have been better had Obama confronted the Iranian "leader" with a question as to why they were pursuing manufacturing nuclear fuel at a second facility - a facility Obama, and his predecessor, knew of for quite some time - while they held the world's attention at the U.N., not after. Nicholas Sarkozy shared the stage with Obama and mentioned possible sanctions.
Seems too little, too late, and mostly pretense. Just like the U.N.'s opening session.
