Sovereignty is therefore a less useful principle than it once was, and Kofi Annan, the U.N. secretary general, has commissioned a study on ways of updating it.
If you can spot the small problem with that kind of thinking, you are not a Leftist.
The problem with the left is that the solution is to embrace others on the left. In this case, the utterly useless, demonstrably corrupt United Nations. Having Kofi Annan, fresh from the Food for Oil scandal in Iraq, exploring ways of "updating sovereignty" makes as much sense as the Menendez brothers overseeing adoption reform.
UPDATE: After reading this story in the Economist, it looks like the source story that WashPo got all wrong.
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