Bolton's warning

Washington Times ^ | 3 8 06 | By Helle Dale

[BlueJ7]

It may also be noted that another U.N. organization, the U.N. Educational and Social Committee (UNESCO) just recently awarded President HUGO CHAVEZ of Venezuela a human rights award, presented by none other than Cuban dictator FIDEL CASTRO. This would be laughable were it not so outrageous.

[caisson71]

Why do we endure the UN, as worthless as they have become? Why do we spend any amount of money on the UN?

[ozoneliar]

I would love to have Bolton as president. Also love Jeane Kirkpatrick. Her quote from 1984 is still extremely relevant: When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the "blame America first crowd" didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better.

[satchmodog9]

This is more typical leftism. Treat the bad kid like an adult and maybe he will change for the better. Sheer idiocy, all it does is empower the bad kid and give him legitimacy.

[Nuc1]

I wish Jeane had run. I think she had a shot at being the first female President. Bolton would make a great President also. I hope he runs someday. I really think we have a number of good candidates to choose from for 08. Certainly a better bench than the dims.

[FreedomNeocon]

The problem here is the U.N. system of regional representation, which allows each region to select its own representative regardless of the country's political system or human rights record.

That is how, a few years back, we found Sudan on the Human Rights Commission, while the United States was deselected in the group of Western countries to which it belongs. This despite the fact that we continue to pay 22 percent of the commission's budget. It is also how, briefly, Saddam Hussein's Iraq took the chairmanship of the disarmament committee in the run-up to the Iraq invasion.



Yeah I forgot about that, you can't write better irony than that last part...

[garyhope]

Jeane Kirkpatrick is fabulous. A really smart, articulate, pragmatic, pro American, Western civilization and realistic woman/person. She would make a great POTUS.

[Thunder90]

The UN is a place where Russia and China have the final say.