Wellyopolis

December 2, 2004

Vicarious responsibility

I find myself in the odd position of partially agreeing with Norm Coleman: corruption in the oil-for-food program is sufficient cause for Kofi Annan to tender his resignation.

The principle of vicarious responsibility for the actions of people and programs below you gives office-holders most of the right incentives to be good leaders. But if we're going to apply this principle to matters Iraq related ... surely there are also some domestic candidates for resignation ...

Until such time as Coleman calls for this resignation (and others) we don't need to take his sudden acceptance of good governence seriously.

Posted by robe0419 at December 2, 2004 12:57 PM