Will the US Senate Confirm Bolton?

Will the US Senate approve John Bolton as the new US Ambassador to the UN now that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has reported his nomination out of committee… without a recommendation?

I expect the Senate Democrats to play their obstructionist games when his nomination comes to the floor of the full Senate. With their usual “spoiled children tantrums” and howls of anguish, they will march to the podium and spew their hateful rhetoric onto the public record, and the left wing press, waiting with baited breath, will rush to print, and broadcast, their every nuance, and their carefully constructed character assassination as they continue their rabid attempts to discredit the Bush administration. In the end, they will be defeated… again… and Bolton will be confirmed. Now, Senator Reid, who is the “loser”?

The problem we had in the Foreign Relations Committee, and the problem we have in the full Senate, is that the Democrats and the “moderate” Republicans are satisfied with the UN, just as it is, and they do not want to rock the boat. The President is not satisfied… at all… and wants to REALLY rock the boat at the UN. John Bolton is the man to state the US position and present it as immovable and unchangeable. He will plant the US flag and not be swayed by the wheeling and dealing of the diplomats in pinstriped suits.

The UN is a mess! It is currently self-destructing. There may be a slim chance of saving it, and the appointment of Bolton, as the Ambassador, is the President’s way of making an attempt at reform… before it is entirely too late. Frankly, I believe it is too late and that the US should pull out of the UN at the earliest possible moment.

We can no longer continue to pour US dollars down a rat hole. For that is what the UN has become. It is a farce. It should be dissolved and another institution built from the ground up to replace it. The new institution should be supportive of democrat nations. The UN has allowed itself to be taken over by non- democratic nations and it is being run as they run their third world countries. There is greed, and avarice, and the lust for power and for money is rampant. Spying is also rampant at the UN. Diplomatic immunity covers a host of sins. Ask the City of New York about how easy it is to collect on parking tickets given to the cars of diplomats from the UN.

Their troops in countries all over the globe are uncontrollable. For the most part they are ineffective as a military force.

There is extremely bad accounting for the millions of dollars flowing thru the UN complex each year.

The whole place is in a teetotal mess. It’s time to bulldoze it and start anew.

One suggestion: Next time, put that building someplace besides the US…please. We’ve about had our fill of diplomacy… UN style.

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”