What do you do after you brought your party’s control of government to a dramatic end? You become an international scold, blaming the world’s problems on everyone else.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is the UN Special Envoy for Global Education. He recently declared that we all are responsible for the depredations of Nigeria’s murderous Boko Haram. “The World Should Be Ashamed of the Failure to #BringBackOurGirls,” he titled his article.
It’s been two years since the group kidnapped 276 girls from the town of Chibok. The militants kill moderate Muslims but typically target Christians, as in Chibok. Despite promises from the Nigerian government, proffers of Western assistance, and a twitter campaign led by First Lady Michelle Obama, none of the girls have been rescued.
Two years on Brown offered his opinion: “we have all done far too little to secure their release.” Indeed, those enslaved “are now a symbol of our apparent weakness to protect young lives.”
I didn’t realize that I should have spent the last two years attempting to “secure” the girls’ release.