Bolton Up Again. Nothing Much Has Changed.

Well, Ambassador John Bolton
is up for another vote of the Foreign Relations Committee and the full Senate.

If you remember… he was “recess appointed” by the President when the Senate dragged it’s feet on approving his nomination. That appointment is only good through early 2007.

I see no reason to believe the Committee, nor the Senate, will act any differently this time around.

Here is what I wrote, back in May of 2005, about the Bolton nomination and the UN:

“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 democratic 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 through the UN complex each year.

The whole place is in a tee-total 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.

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