In his farewell speech as Secretary General of the UN, Kofi Annan delivered a series of "lessons" which could be read as rebukes to the Bush/Cheney doctrine. Given at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, Annan's speech invokes Truman throughout, while conspicuously using Bush's name exactly zero times. The lessons:

·                     First, we are all responsible for each other's security.

·             Second, we can and must give everyone the chance to benefit from global prosperity.

·                Third, both security and prosperity depend on human rights and the rule of law.

·               Fourth, states must be accountable to each other, and to a broad range of non-state actors, in their international conduct.

·               My fifth & final lesson derives inescapably from those other four. We can only do all these things by working together through a multilateral system, & by making the best possible use of the unique instrument bequeathed to us by Harry Truman & his contemporaries, namely the United Nations.

Kofi Annan To US: Serve, Don't Dominate The World