Monday, March 7, 2005
Bush's New UN Ambassador Hates The UN...
From where I sit, making John Bolton a UN Ambassador is roughly akin to making O.J. Simpson the spokesman for the Promise Keepers...
ThinkProgress has compiled some of Bolton's greatest hits (pun intended) on the United Nations. The following is #1 with a bullet:
At a 1994 panel discussion sponsored by the World Federalist Association Bolton claimed "there's no such thing as the United Nations," and stated ''if the UN secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.''
Mr. Bolton must be a having a real existential crisis now that he's going to work at an organization he doesn't believe is real. There's a Dilbert strip in there somewhere...
Conservatives can rant and rave about the UN being "irrelevant" all day long, but the reality is that a move like this only makes it more apparent that Bush has no desire to change that perception (misguided as it may be).
An appointment like this won't get the UN on the track toward being relevant in anyone's mind...
If Bush really wanted to improve the way the UN worked rather than simply make it look bad, wouldn't it make more sense to nominate someone that, at the very least acknowledges the value an organization like the UN can bring to the world?
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