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Nearly Sane

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Kofi Annan dead
« on: August 18, 2018, 01:00:10 PM »

Roses

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Re: Kofi Annan dead
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2018, 01:51:31 PM »
Kofi Annan appears to have done an excellent job whilst in office.
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torridon

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Re: Kofi Annan dead
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2018, 03:53:21 PM »
Oh dear  :(

His kind seem in short supply now in a world filled with strongarm populists who thrive by appealing to our baser instincts. It seems gone are the days when we could take heart in the internationalist moral leadership of compassion, dignity and grace that he personified.

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Re: Kofi Annan dead
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2018, 06:39:53 PM »
Thank you, Torridon, for expressing my own sentiments so accurately.
Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?