Now that Bolton’s out onto the floor for a vote [1], I have some thoughts to add.
Look, let’s call this resistance to Bolton going to the UN what it is; A political game, called ‘stall and smear’… a game the Democrats have done rather well with over the years. That party trick has lost it’s glow, however, in the last few decades… a point which was revealed in particularly pronounced fashion in 2000 and 2004.
This is not an argument about Bolton’s qualifications, since no serious arguments about these have been brought to the table. The biggest argument that the objectors to Bolton can find is that he’s got sharp elbows. This has proven ineffective because the majority think the UN has become, alternately, useless, and worse than useless, and who think that sharp elbows are just the thing.
In the end, Bolton’s nomination and ultimate confirmation… which, as I gather it, will come after the first of the month, now… comes down to an argument between those who think the United Nations needs reforming… and those who think the United STATES is the one needing the reforms. And the majority… dare I say this… the VAST majority think that the UN is the issue.
Of course he’s quoted as saying, “If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a difference.”
You can understand, I guess, how someone who thinks the UN is fine, and all is hunky-dory… that the UN is providing a public service…. and the Oil for Food scandal was all the fault of the US, would consider that statement to be incendiary. But you’d need to be in a serious state of recto-cranial inversion to say that, much less believe it.
Since I’ve already brought it up, let’s talk about “oil for food” as an example;
Here we have a group of people at Turtle Bay, robbing the starving people of Iraq of on the order of $10 billion, and tossing up roadblocks to upstart nations like the US, who come in to among other things, rectify that situation.
Elsewhere, we see millions dying in the Sudan and in Zimbabwe.. and the supposed “Human rights watchdog” does nothing. What can be said of an org where the worst of the worst in terms of human rights violations…China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and the afore-mentioned Sudan and Zimbabwe, hold positions on the UN’s Human Rights commission?
Some watchdog, eh? See also, Weasel, Chicken Coup.
So what are those working against Bolton actually working FOR? Well, I think it clear that they’re working to the end that the UN will continue on the path it’s been on for the last 40 years. No change. Status quo. The people they’re trusted to help won’t get any… the people with offices at the UN building will continue to rake in billions to their own pockets, and the US will get the blame for all of it.
Support of this status quo, has become a partisan battle. Shouldn’t be, but it is.
Why?
Well, notice, please, who it is who are working against Bolton. Career Diplomats… and One- worlder socialist Democrats. People who have, over the years, gained much position and power though the UN. And in the case of the Democrats, people who see their one-world political views only coming to fruition though a central world power like the UN. As a particularly bald example, notice that Bolton considers the communists in Cuba a terrorist threat to the US, while the Democrats in the Senate want us to normalize relations with Castro and his band of thugs.
It’s not hard at all to see why such people object to Bolton. But my friends, by their flimsy, paper thin arguments, ye shall know them.
And remember the simple truth….Cockroaches always run from the light.
Update:
Heh.
Boortz [2] this morning asks the people arguing about the reported abuse of subordinates, if they’ve ever heard of Hillary Clinton’s flying ashtrays, and lamps in the WH.