Overambitious promises just provoke frustration

Achieving the US Millennium Goals by 2015 is impossible, and blithely promising that they can be reached is counterproductive, writes the daily Delo: "Apart from those people whose job it is to believe in them, serious analysts who dare to say the large-scale millennium promises can be realised are few and far between. ... Of course it's generally a good thing to have goals because that makes it easier to mobilise people. But as one US analyst has pointed out, if you don't reach those goals you run a major risk of having laudable - perhaps even productive - activities castigated as failures. And that is just what the heads of state and government are now experiencing. In five years they'll have to think quick to come up with cogent reasons for why they didn't meet these goals after all."

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