Wednesday, March 09, 2005

If i was a senator He'd have my vote

From Al-Press about the Designee to the Un Ambassadorship

He once lambasted the chief U.N. human rights monitor as a rogue bureaucrat whose conduct "is a threat that we ignore at our own risk."


"There is no such thing as the United Nations," he said in a 1994 speech. "There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that is the United States."


"Admittedly, not all American governmental institutions are democratic," Bolton wrote in a 1999 opinion piece in the journal Legal Times. "But even if key government bodies are far removed from popular accountability and unelected bureaucrats have been delegated vast power, they nonetheless are part of a coherent constitutional structure. By contrast, we find no coherence in the United Nations, just a mass of institutions that has grown over the years like a coral reef. "


Two years ago, Bolton denounced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il as a "tyrannical dictator" at a time when the official State Department line was much more accommodating.


"We should also make clear that diplomatic normalization with the U.S. is only going to come when North Korea becomes a normal country," he said then.

Writing in The Dallas Morning News in 2000, Bolton accused the Clinton administration of "an unambiguous act of appeasement" for agreeing to shield Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi if he handed over two suspects in the Pan Am 103 bombing for trial.


In a 2000 op-ed in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Bolton questioned whether U.N. peacekeeping missions were becoming too plentiful and ambitious. He also said Kofi Annan, then as now the U.N. Secretary-General, was too eager to transform U.N. peacekeepers into warriors.

"This is not simply a budgeteer's bean-counting quarrel over personnel levels, but a fundamental disagreement about the most appropriate and feasible role for the U.N. in international conflicts," Bolton wrote.

"Peacekeeping historically has relied on the consent of and cooperation by parties to a conflict. Where that is absent, not only does peacekeeping fail, but so too will 'peace' itself."


He sounds like Just the man the UN needs right now

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