In his speech at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, the ITU’s Hamadoun Tour? “spoke openly of the ongoing ‘war’ between ICANN and the ITU writes Milton Mueller. Mueller notes Tour? demanded a stronger role for governments in ICANN, dismissed ICANN’s GAC as “cosmetic” (quite wrong says Mueller) and correctly accused the IGF of “avoiding issues” but also rather harshly dismissed it as a “waste of time.” Mueller commended “Tour? for his forthrightness, which is all too rare in international organizations. Unfortunately, his blunt speech supports the wrong cause.”