You can't BS with John BoltoN!
Posted on 06/12/2006 12:08:27 AM PDT by RWR8189
Last month President Bush issued a rare apology. "Saying 'Bring it on,' kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal," he confessed. "I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted."
Well done, Mr. President, you've understood that bluster can backfire. Now how about sharing this insight with your ambassador to the United Nations?
John R. Bolton, the ambassador in question, has a rich history of losing friends and failing to influence people. He was notorious, even before arriving at the United Nations last year, for having said that 10 stories of the U.N. headquarters could be demolished without much loss; he had described the United States as the sun around which lesser nations rotate -- mere "asteroids," he'd branded them. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Senate refused to confirm Bolton as U.N. ambassador. "Arrogant," "bullying," and "the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be," Sen. George Voinovich called him.
Bush sent Bolton anyway, bypassing the Senate by appointing him during a congressional recess. It soon turned out that dismissing foreign ambassadors as asteroid dwellers was merely a warm-up. As soon as Bolton got to New York, he blew up the preparatory negotiations for a gathering of heads of state, insisting that the other 190 members of the world body immediately agree to hundreds of changes in the summit document.
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This writer's bias stands out all over the place. Another socialist, leftist, snobby elitist, and that's just for starters. Another supporter of the corrupt U.N. Bless Ambassador Bolton for fighting the impossible fight. The only way to win against the Arabist U.N. is to pull out of this faux debating society and put the NY property up for sale. Kick them the heck out of this country, and now.
Bolton is telling the members of the UN something none of them wanted to hear, let alone admit. The continued corruption inside the UN needs to be stopped. Either reform the organization, cut out the fat, require totally NEW people or get it the hell off our shores.
Bolton? I never liked his music, actually. But if the lefties and commies hate him then I got no complaints.
"Sounds like Ambassador Bolton is doing a fine job."
Bump to that.
He is guilty of being too conservative in this analysis indeed!
Remove the whole building and the world would be better off.
Bolton is the best man at that post in a long, long time.
"Sebastian Mallaby grew up in Britain and has been a correspondent in Japan and Southern Africa. He joined the Washington Post editorial page in 1999 after 13 years with The Economist of London, and is the author of "The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations," to be published in September 2004. His column appears on Mondays."
That's considered an apology?? Well, I guess since it's about as close as a lib ever gets to making a real apology, they have to interpret it as being one from GWB.
If you and your buddies in the LameStream Media gave 1/100th of the attention to exposing the U.N. as you've done to Tom DeLay, the American people might be demanding we pull out of that Kofi-led idiot house.
But then again, maybe not: lots of people are ignoring the LSM nowadays anyway.
I had a dog named, "Sebastian," once.
If the article is even 1/3 accurate he is defying his boss.
You can't BS with John BoltoN!
The April 2006 issue of COMMENTARY has an excellent article for putting all this whining into perspective:
How Corrupt Is the United Nations?
Rosett, Claudia (April 2006)
A cascade of abuses, financial, personal, and managerial, raises the question of whether the international body is capable of, or indeed interested in, genuine reform.
I think he was referring to removing the BOTTOM ten stories of the building...
In reality, it's the Washington Post that has a history of losing friends and failing to influence people.
Bolton/Coulter 08'
Works for me......
Did he look like this?
As the Joker (Jack) said in Batman I: I like this guy already.
Get together with Japan, withhold dues - start the squeeze on that Star Wars bar of dictators, thugs, and criminals.
As long as I live, I will NEVER understand why Bush keeps apologizing for stuff that he was right about. He apologized for the 17 SOTU words, and now he's apologizing for the "bring it on" comment. Why?? He was right both times.
If he wants to apologoze for something, he should apologize for signing Campaign Finance Reform into law, even while acknowledging that it was crap legislation. He should apologize for his stance on immigration and the illegal invasion. He should apologize for not making the tax cuts permanent.
But, he needn't apologize for the things he was right about.
Indeed it does. From on down in the article:
Bolton added his own brand of bluster to this plan: If poor countries carried on resisting management reforms, rich countries would stop paying for the organization. The deadline for agreeing on reform is the end of this month, but no breakthrough is in sight. Officials are wondering what to do if U.N. checks start bouncing.
Well, the United Nations does have a nice university property in a very ritzy portion of Tokyo that they could probably get a lot of yen for. That could keep the New York office open for a while. The United Nations: in fine keeping with its traditions, it is so useless that its "United Nations University" doesn't even have any students.
I don't think that closing it down and putting something a bit more useful, say, another Takashimaya branch, would do any harm.
Kofi and his UN clowns should be given a choice: parachute from the top of the UN building holding a teacup over your head or leave.
We all know the UN is corrupt, the question is do we care? If we do, then Bolton will accomplish absolutely nothing towards reforming it because he's alientated everyone and nobody will listen to what he has to say. If we don't care, then a better way to send a message would be to send nobody and to leave the post of UN Ambassador vacant.
Very apt description indeed!
Over 75% of the UN budget goes for salaries. The UN is dedicated to helping the UN personnel to ever increasing bloated, tax free incomes.
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