John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, didn’t turn out to be the bull in the China shop that Senate critics feared when they refused to confirm him last year (President Bush responded by giving him a temporary appointment). He was more diplomatic than expected and had some notable successes, especially on security issues such as organizing opposition to North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. He also was right about the need for reform at the United Nations.
Still, it’s good that Bolton stepped down. He represents a foreign policy approach that is largely discredited — that the United States can go it alone in the world and not worry about the approval or cooperation of the world body.
As experience has shown, America needs friends and allies in the world, and it also needs a diplomat to the world body that Congress can get united behind. Bolton wasn’t that person.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on your way out …
Bolton . . . the guy who helped shut down the recount in Florida in November 2000.
Appointed to the UN as political payback for being a loyal nazi and a stick in the eye to hated “multinationalism.”
John, you’ll be missed . . .
One by one, all the President’s men are discredited and disgraced as in some Jacobean tragedy. It’s just a matter of time before the stage is littered with bodies. “The king,” cries a dying Laertes, “the king’s to blame.”
And then they are upon him . . .
Now ol’ bushy face can go back to running a bait store in a 50’s sitcom like he looks like he should be doing.
Who’s next?
He’s a natural for the ‘got milk’ advertising campaign though.
OK, we’re rid of Bolton … now, let’s get rid of the United Flaccid Nations ! It’s a joke unworthy of even John Kerry.
” America needs friends and allies in the world,”
Friends like France and Germany and Russia, who were on the take from Saddam through the United Nations Oil For Food Program? That kind of Friend?
So whose friend have we been lately, Heck? Sounds like we’ve reaped what we’ve sown.
Heckler – how about friends like Saddam? He was a good buddy to Reagan and Bush. The House of Saud? Where did the 9/11 hijackers come from? The Taliban? We helped put them in power.
You might choose them; I’d rather go with France and Germany.
As for Russia, it was Bush who said he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw a man he could believe in and trust.
John Bolton raised his hand to veto a UN Resolution condemning the killing of 19 Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli barbarians.
For Bolton to stand in the way of condemning that slaughter means there is something wrong with his mind.
A sane person could not have done that.
He also vetoed attempts to stop the carnage in Lebanon including the use of cluster bombs against civilians.
Sucking-up to the self-pitying Israelis needs to stop. They do not deserve any such pity.
Bush is bullheaded with other people’s lives. He doesn’t care. All that matters is his own ego.