COMMENTARY
Amidst shocking revelations of a cyber-criminal hacking into the Haiti Reconstruction Conference delegates' listserv, Fox News reported that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon deputized SOUTHCOM general officer and U.S. military representative to the conference General Morgan Greene (USA), and authorized the general to "increase current cyber security levels and to eliminate potential future threats."
This is not an encouraging omen for the conference. If the UN can't even protect its own servers from infiltration, how does it intend to help rebuild an entire ravaged nation and rebuild its state capacity?!
Furthermore, though the U.S. remains the UN hoi-polloi's favorite whipping boy, the minute the esteemed body faces trouble it runs into the ready arms of the U.S. military. SOUTHCOM is commendable for taking on such a noble task, though Fox News remains wary at the unilateral action of the Secretary General, and can't help but ask, where was President Obama while the UN went ahead and began to issue orders to our sovereign nation's armed forces?
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