I got a faint whiff of an attitude that America should run the UN, or simply announce what was going to happen, and let the UN me-too in order to survive as an institution.
Clearly he favors the CORE nations, (the INS), promoting interactivity all over the world, while the GAP nations, the OUTS), either learn to play ball, or we will eventually send in some rehabilitation trainers.
As to his personal politics, the show was recorded on June 2, which was before the crummy no-bounce Democrat Convention, before the national out-pouring of good feelings for Ronald Reagan, and before the impressive and stately Republican Convention.
He may well be an academic who is leaning heavily on his co-analysts at the War College for his brilliance.
Still, I plan to follow this "thread."
The alleged injured co-analyst[s] might have popped off about this academic injustice, were it to have occurred. What you try to argue is a bit like the theory that no one could have been smart enought to write Shakespeare's plays and so some other genius must have written them, or the other silly theory that they concot is the one impossibly brilliant person is so hard to imagine that the only explanation is the even more unlikely co-existance of two or more impossibly brillian people.
I am afraid the democrat or not, he is the real thing. It takes only a few minutes listening to him to realize that he is the one who thought at least a lot of this up.