[ncountylee]

Forgot to check excerpt, click AP via TBO.

[zarf]

Finally a guy who speaks the truth and the Dems hung up his nominatiion.

Gee, go figure.

[backhoe]

Click this picture & go to the "last" for the latest UN scandals:

If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

[Manic_Episode]

BANG! ZOOM!

[Atlantic Bridge]

INGATE, N.C. (AP) -- United Nations Ambassador John Bolton catalogued the agency's problems Monday, saying Americans want to fix the U.N. or find an alternative to it.

Love it or hate it, but the UN is needed as a forum between the nations on this planet. It is for sure not a place of morale, but it is a good place to communicate. Even the standpoints of the pariahs like Iran or North Korea can be checked through the UN without any problems.

I doubt that the UN has the justification to play the "world representation" or the "world sheriff", since there is absolutely no democratic basement. Anyway some achievements like the standards on human rights, justified or unjustified war etc. are not bad.

If the US are lauching an "alternative" they only would have the backing of their traditional allies like GB (maybe yes maybe no - maybe Jimmy maybe Joe - hehe), Australia and several smaller countries. America would isolate itself, since it still doesn't represent the world alone.

I think that we rather need a debate over the duties and responsibilities of the UN. Bolton is right - we have to fix the institution, but he shouldn't forget that the world doesn't consist only of friendly nations. It is unrealistic to declare a "pax americana" as long as America has not the means to deal with all those thugs alone and immediately. During the Iraq crisis America proved that it can handle its problems alone, although the discussion with the other nations was more than painful. Unregarded the fact that there was no consistent international backing for the Iraq war, the debate helped to show the new political realities after the cold war. Furthermore it showed the weaknesses in the system of the West. What is i.e. the NATO worth if not all members will stand in for their duties? What has to be done in Europe? What are the new focuses of power (China, India?)? What is the American role in the future? How can old constallations (France, Germany) be restored?

It is better to have a organisation that reflects the real world and its disabilities than a congregation of false allies who will backstab the only remaining world power as soon as they can.

[Lancey Howard]

bttt

[goldstategop]

The Democrats didn't want Bolton at the UN. He's the Bull in the Turtle Bay China Shop.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this reminder that Bolton is on the job. He's not in the news much lately, though you would have thought Bolton was the only bad man left on earth, back when the Dems were using the press to attack him 24/7.

[George W. Bush]

Other continuing problems, Bolton said, include the oil-for-food scandal, which helped empower Saddam Hussein in Iraq; the tendency for U.N. peacekeeping missions to last indefinitely; and the troubling proclivity toward sexual exploitation and abuse "of the very people they're sent to protect" by U.N. peacekeepers.

The permanent occupations and the oil-for-food sham are part of the U.N.'s true objective: any element of policy which brings any area or country under their control will never be surrendered to its legitimate citizens. They will remain under U.N. control forever.

The pimps and hustlers in the U.N. military arm are the most compelling reason we should never allow our troops to serve alongside them. We will never improve them and they will corrupt some of our soldiers. Naturally, the American feminists never seem to discover all the U.N.-related sexual exploitation of women. Funny how works.

[varon]

United Nations Ambassador John Bolton catalogued the agency's problems Monday, saying Americans want to fix the U.N. or find an alternative to it. (My emphasis)

I'll take choice B: find an alternative ;-)