Posted on 04/22/2005 6:06:01 AM PDT by bitt
When Irving Kristol — regarded by many as the "godfather of neoconservatism" — described a neoconservative as a "liberal who has been mugged by reality," he was not describing John Bolton. Unlike many of his supporters in the Bush administration, the U.N. ambassador-designate did not start out his political career on the center-left — either as a liberal, social democrat, or socialist.
In the 1950s through the 1970s, the political forerunners who established neoconservatism as the defining trend within American conservatism went through a left-right transformation. In that political morphing, the neoconservatives have redefined U.S. politics from the Reagan administration through the current Bush administration.
Bolton shares much with the closely knit neoconservative political camp: their red-meat anticommunism, their obsession with China, their support of right-wing Zionism in Israel, and their glorification of U.S. power as the main force for good and against evil in our world. Bolton has also forged close links with neoconservatives while a scholar at the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Although sharing most of the neoconservative ideology, Bolton is not himself a true-blue neocon.
(Excerpt) Read more at axisoflogic.com ...
One political label that certainly fits Bolton is that of "hawk" or militarist. Like most other Bush administration officials, Bolton is a militarist who has never gone to war — which according to some detractors makes him a "chickenhawk." In his work in the Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations, Bolton has become known as the right's most effective and strident opponent of the United Nations and all forms of global governance and international law not controlled by the U.S. government."
very lengthy but worth it.
That settles it. Bolton is the perfect SOB for the UN gig. Sure, I'd rather have Rummy make a monkey out of those morons at the UN, but he's busy.
Sounds like my kind a guy, no wonder the traitors in the state department hate him.
Sounds good to me!
I am afraid this writer will develop his own obsession with China in the not too distant future. I wonder if there were any people in the 1930's who were accused of being obsessed with Germany?
America deserves everyone's glorification as the main force of good against evil in the world. The United States saved mankind from global tyrannical domination 3 times in the 20th century. This writer is deliberately ignorant, stupid or just an America hater willing to say anything that is against the United States.
After reading that, I want no one BUT John Bolton representing the United States and slamming the tyrants and dictators and anti-American criminals running the United Nations! Go Ambassador Bolton, give 'em hell!
Wow that article tries to get nasty and make a lot of unsubstantiated accusations about Bolton's past.
However, the article can't hide that Bolton is a steadfast defender of the rights of americans, and the soverienty of the United States.
They try and claim Bolton isn't a multilateralist. Bolton is a multilateralist, he tries to work with other nations who's interests match those of the United States. He is just unwilling to allow other nations to determine the actions of the United States.
If you look at the kind of crap anti-american nations are trying to pull with courts, Boton's opinion that we should not be part of the international criminal court is obviously the correct decision.
Do we really want the world body that has brought us the UN Commission on Human Rights, which is run by some of the worst human rights offenders, to be forming a court in which US citizens will be held accountable to their political manuverings.
Bolton will make an exellent US ambassador to the UN.
Liberals want a someone who will be a UN ambassador to the US and look after UN interests first.
Will someone please direct me too the lengthy column this writer published detailing the Chinese military, the Lippo Group, Charlie Trie, millions of campaign dollars, the DNC, the Clinton/Gore '96 campaign, Loral Space, Bernard Schwartz .......? I'm sure he also wrote in length about this and other Clinton crimes.
Bolton sounds like a great guy for the UN job. The hatchet job editorail by this weenie will backfire if more Americans read it. It puts Bolton on the winning side of every leftist argument against America.
It is UNACCEPTABLE that we would even THINK about sending a tough mean guy to such a place of peace and serenity as the UN.
What... are we trying to corrupt it or something?
It is UNACCEPTABLE that we would even THINK about sending a tough mean guy that fires people to such a place of peace, order and serenity as the UN.
What... are we trying to corrupt it or something?
The domestic one is abortion.
The foreign one can be boiled down to this--both sides want the US to be multilateralist, BUT when push comes to shove, Republicans want America's position to succeed. Democrats believe that it's best for the US that, when push comes to shove, the US should go with the prevailing attitude in the UN.
This simplistic idea that we should always strive for "something everyone can agree with" is obviously fatally flawed; when you compromise in domestic politics, you can believe (rightly or wrongly) that we are at least all Americans, and coming from a somewhat similar ideological base. But you can't just transfer that to the UN, which includes so many countries that are dictatorships, quasi-socialist democracies, theocracies, etc. etc.
That's the Dems' biggest blind spot re:foreign policy.
Bolton will accomplish nothing at the UN. They already hate and distrust him almost as much as he dislikes and distrusts them. They won't listen to him or accept U.S. leadership. So sending him is pointless. A much more effective message can be sent by simply leaving the ambassador to the UN position empty. Send nobody. Let our interests be handled by some lower level flunky. That should tell the UN exactly what this administration thinks of them.
How pathetic and impotent they've become in this country is being amply demonstrated by the low level to which these so-called confirmation hearings are devolving. They can't just come out and say what their real beef is, so they have to resort to trotting out every thin-skinned government bureaucrat who's upset because they didn't like the way Bolton once arched his eyebrows at them or something. It's sad really that this is what our government has come to.
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