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- 04 December 2006
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John Bolton has resigned as the US envoy to
the UN and already the commentariat is trying to mythologize his record at the
UN while simultaneously condemning Democrats and Republican liberals for daring
to oppose him.
As we
say in TV land, let's go to the replay. John Bolton was a disaster as America's
representative to the world body.
Before
he went to the UN, he expressed open contempt for the body saying such things as
it would not make any difference if you lopped ten stories off the UN building.
Within
a month of his recess appointment last summer 2005, he deliberately undermined
and partly destroyed the greatest reform effort at the UN ever undertaken --
which would have restructured the organization and improved its operations in
many different areas --by flooding the negotiation process with hundreds of
gratuitous amendments that hampered any final settlement.
He
tried to drop any mention of the UN's most important mission -- the Millennium
Development Goals -- from the reform package until his own boss, Secretary of
State Rice, reversed him.
His own
antics over changes in the Human Rights Commission contributed to the creation
of a defective new Human Rights Council.
He
brought in antiabortion activists and National Rifle Association members to the
US mission to promote their extreme causes at UN sessions.
According
to continuing press reports, he bruised, battered and bewildered other UN
diplomats with his rudeness and intemperate behavior.
That he
was even listed on the same roster as previous US ambassadors like Adlai
Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and even Gorge H.W. Bush was an insult to
our nation. We as a country should wish him good riddance.
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