This may be a record fold even for the spineless Kofi Annan. According to news reports, including a lengthy video of Annan speaking, he has capitulated to Syrian strongman Bashar Assad's barely-week-old demand that UN troops not be stationed along the Syrian-Lebanon border. I predicted at the time that the UN would cave. Sometimes it's distressing to be right.

UN chief Kofi Annan said Friday Damascus would enforce an arms embargo on Hizbullah in accordance with a UN resolution that halted Israel's war with the Lebanese group. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with the Syrian President in the Ash-Shaab Presidential Palace in Damascus, Annan said Bashar Assad had promised him he would halt all weapons to the Lebanese resistance group under UNSC 1701.

Syria also promised to boost the number of it own guards along the Lebanese-Syrian border, and establish joint patrols with the Lebanese Army "where possible," Annan said.

"While stating Syrian objections to the presence of foreign forces along the Syrian-Lebanese border , the [Syrian] president committed to me that Syria shall take all necessary measures to implement in full paragraph 15 of Resolution 1701 [which] deals with the arms embargo and rearmament" of Hizbullah, Annan said.

Is it any wonder that practically no Israeli of any political stripe has the slightest trust in Kofi Annan? By assigning Syria the responsibility to enforce the arms embargo against Hezbollah, Annan has truly put a ravenous fox in charge of guarding the henhouse. It's not credible that Annan doesn't know that Syria was the principal supplier of weapons to Hezbollah.

A more craven, unsavory character to head the UN can hardly be imagined. He has done more to destroy the UN's credibility (when it's had precious little to spare) than anyone else in the whole, wide world.