UN is like the Twilight Zone, says Bolton

The Daily Telegraph ^ | May 1, 2006 | Alec Russell

[listenhillary]

America's bantam cock of an ambassador is something of a cult figure at the UN.

[frankiep]

UN officials mutter that far from helping to push through much-needed reforms to ensure embarrassments such as the oil-for-food scandal are never repeated, his methods have impeded the chances of agreement.

Oil for food scandal, Coffee Anus' son, UN peacekeepers committing sex crimes, countries like Libya, Cuba, Syria, Iran, etc. heading up committies dealing with disarmament, and human rights, and resolutions that are laughed at and have no meaning.....but it is Bolton that is the problem in their eyes?

Seriously, any candidate in 2008 that runs on a platform of making sure that this criminal organization is removed from our soil has got my vote, without question.

[AIC]

The U.S. Pres. and most of Wash. politicians thinks the U.N. is important and worth saving. My question is, 'just why is the U.N. important'? Just the facts. Is there ANY important use that the U.N. is used for? Has the U.N. at any time since it's conception been of any use to any country? Has it every stopped a war? Can it stop anything? Has it helped with any type of trade agreements that were not crooked?
Is the U.N. there just for the use of the high class politicians from all over the world?
I think I would really like to know just what GOOD is the U.N. to anyone in the world. What good have they done that is not done by a country or several countries anyway and still do if there were not a U.N.?

[LibLieSlayer]

"Genuine question - (I'm not fishing for a particular response): When was this time you miss? You imply it is within living memory - so I am curious for an American perspective on when the real golden age was?"

When Senators could call out another Senator, and take a pair of Dueling pistols and end a unbreachable impasse, the U.S. Senate functioned more efficiently and with far less PC bullsh!t! Perhaps that was our "Golden Age"!

Short of that, Term Limits would help today!

LLS

[sergeantdave]

The UN is simply the most public symbol of the international communist movement on American soil. Its influence is felt across America via our federal bureaucracy that is illegally implementing unratified UN treaties such as the biodiversity treaty, voted down by the US senate in 1994. The UN should have been ripped down the same day the Berlin Wall fell.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Ivan, but with replies like that you're going to lose the tag "Mad". I agree with your comments. You're right on target from my perspective.

[phillyfanatic]

Not only its history is a failure but its dithering over facing real evil is so self-evident, only leftist delusionals think it has a part in governing the world. The USA should start its own Western-Eastern alliance which unites those who are democratic, capitalistic, for those nations open to these two levels, and reform a united NATO which would include those nations willing to fight Islamofacism and totalitarianism on all levels. Let the UN fall on its own corrupt sword. There is no reformation for it and Bolton is right in his condemnation. Now if only W would join in, we might see a very radical change in a opt-in with committment world organization.

[dixiechick2000]

Bolton bump!


I wish they would bulldoze the place,
and pave a (more useful) parking lot.

[1rudeboy]

Another Bush globalist pulling wool over the eyes of the true believers. [chuckle]

[Victoria Delsoul]

Mr Bolton rolls his eyes when asked if he is combative because he is not really interested in reform. "That criticism is a complete non sequitur," he retorts. "My stance is not combative. I would describe it as assertive.

LOL!!! Overestimating just a bit, isn't he? Silly guy.

[Herakles]

"I am curious for an American perspective on when the real golden age was?"

August, 1945; two cities somewhere in Japan!

[FreedomCalls]

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."