New UN Secretary

I have listened to the new UN Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon, several times the last few days. I like him and at this time I think he will do a good job. He has a good sense of humor and is a thinker, and I think a doer. Time will tell, but a change was needed, and he seems to fit the bill for intelligence, looking at all the problems or circumstances of world problems be it religion, politics, and all parties involved.
I can only hope he can talk some sense to the "great decider" and help broker a peace in Iraq, and other war torn countries.
It is clear that "Dubbya" is, or going to try to stay the course, like pumping 20,000 more troops into Iraq is the answer. He just doesn't get the picture, we can't win militarily, it isn't conventional war, we found that out in Vietnam, the Ru-skies found that out in Afghanistan, and we are finding that out in both Iraq and Afghanistan .The only one who doesn't see it is Dubbya. In both countries, the people don't see us as helping them, they see us as occupiers, not saviors. They see that our words are ringing hollow, we will make you a democracy and rebuild the countries, none of which we can do. What they do see is their own people dying daily and see us as helpless to stop it.
I really wish I could say something more positive about both places, but all there is that I can see is a failure of policy. Our troops have done all they can, and even more than we can ask, some serving 2 or 3 tours of duty we should not ask nor make people go into harms way like that. But because we don't have the numbers to fight wars like this, our soldiers and their families bear the burden of our leaders misguided personality.