Video: Bolton unloads on the UN
posted at 8:33 pm on November 20, 2006 by Allahpundit
Gillermania spoke about the Beit Hanoun resolution on Friday morning. Here’s a taste of what the soon-to-be former ambassador to the United Nations had to say about it on Friday afternoon. You can watch the full speech by clicking here and fast-forwarding to 22:45.
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Bolton in 2008!!!
Melba Toast on November 20, 2006 at 8:40 PM
I would love for us to leave the UN and kick them off our shores. Its relevance ended long ago.
Benaiah on November 20, 2006 at 8:42 PM
Man he rocks.
bbz123 on November 20, 2006 at 8:44 PM
Bolton is great, but I don’t want him to fix the UN. I want the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN.
Move it to Darfur, fix that mess, then we’ll talk.
shermacman on November 20, 2006 at 8:50 PM
Hear hear. I never understood out government’s irrational desire to dole out hundreds of millions of dollars to people & orginizations that hate us. Palestine is another example.
jman on November 20, 2006 at 8:51 PM
Why don’t the dems like him?
Because he doesn’t support terrorists, that’s why!
Jared_MA on November 20, 2006 at 8:52 PM
Why are we even still involved with that snake pit???
Oh, right, must be ’cause of the wonderful job they’ve done in Darfur.
Kick ‘em outta my freakin’ country already! Start an new Global Freedom Alliance, a military and economic alliance with our TRUE friends. All enemies GET OUT! Starve without our assistance or become free and join the club!
Tony737 on November 20, 2006 at 8:52 PM
Why doesn’t the U.S. temporarily isolate itself from the world, then watch the world fall apart, and then come back and mop the floor?
Atlas Shrugged has all of the answers.
Jared_MA on November 20, 2006 at 8:53 PM
Given that opposites repel, it is clear why our government and John Bolton seem destined soon to part. Would that it weren’t so.
kmcguire on November 20, 2006 at 8:54 PM
I have the one-in- all solution.
Bolton announces that the UN KQ will be moving.
to Iraq.
bbz123 on November 20, 2006 at 8:56 PM
oops,s/b HQ
bbz123 on November 20, 2006 at 8:56 PM
I love Bolton’s dogged attacks on the useless UN, but I, too, would rather see the UN thrown out of our country. It is fetid, disgusting, pointless, and nothing but an excuse to have an international forum to attack the USA and Israel.
The UN is a joke and has been since the first day of business.
Warner Todd Huston on November 20, 2006 at 8:57 PM
Maybe they should mop their own floor for a change.
jman on November 20, 2006 at 9:02 PM
The UN has its roots in a good cause after WWII. Unfortunately, it has become a leftist bureaucracy and we live in a world that is more dangerous than what the UN is able to handle (or to willing blind to recognise). They don’t have the Gumballs to deal with the threat at hand. I also believe that it is more corrupt than our own national congress. I agree with Benaiah, but that is a pipe dream.
PS – We need to get a third party runing that is completely independent and will not be bothered with special interests. Get back to old days where farmer Joe was there really doing good for his country. Another pipe dream…but a dream. Has anyone checked if Washington is possessed? LOL
lsutiger on November 20, 2006 at 9:07 PM
He’s always been strong on points but now he knows he’s a man with nothing to lose. Strong again, but, with that audience, he may as well have turned around and talked to that green marble wall behind him.
thedecider on November 20, 2006 at 9:10 PM
Because there wouldn’t be any floors left to mop.
Entelechy on November 20, 2006 at 9:17 PM
WOW! I posted before I saw the vid…Don’t they call that the ‘slapdown’ in the Cheney residence?
lsutiger on November 20, 2006 at 9:17 PM
Amen. The scary thing is, it is this same corrupt anti-Semitic anti-American organization that the Dems want the U.S. to be in submission to in our foreign affairs.
infidel4life on November 20, 2006 at 9:19 PM
The UN just got owned. Bolton will make a terrific senator. He read the statement mildly,but he illuminated the terrible inconsistencies in the UN. Bolton 2008.
Ouabam on November 20, 2006 at 9:45 PM
Bolton is generally a tool, but I have to agree with him on this one. There should be no compromising on human rights.
Constantine on November 20, 2006 at 10:14 PM
Generally a tool? Come on! That’s a bit harsh. Actually, I appreciate his directness. However, you’ll get your wish to see him leave the U.N. soon enough. Too bad.
thedecider on November 20, 2006 at 10:32 PM
We should pull out of the UN and take our 13 billion dollars a year with us. That’s a good name for them, UN, they are UN-reliable, UN-helpful, UN-American, UN-civilized and just totally UN-trustworthy. It’s the United States alone that give them any credibility, yet we get more respect from the Kremlin. What a bunch of slithering snakes they are. If we leave, they crumble, I’m sure Mexico has plenty of unused office space, they can move right in. If it were up to me, they would receive their eviction notice tomorrow. But I would be reasonable, I’ve give them till noon to get out.
Maxx on November 20, 2006 at 11:31 PM
Wow! Bolton speaks squarely to the issues and doesn’t mince words on the truth. How much more clearly can one get in describing the isuees at the UN and how it is being used as a pawn? Wow!
Why is there so much opposition to such quality representation of United Stated interests in the UN?
omegaram on November 20, 2006 at 11:33 PM
Democrats = Communist/Socialist …… that’s why.
Maxx on November 20, 2006 at 11:39 PM
…sounds right on to me.
The UN is ill-served when it becomes a polemical council against Israel or the United States…attacking Israel while ignoring Darfur, etc. Nothing “tool-y” there….
Just saying that the UN is an empty building full of empty suits.
Go, ‘Stache!
Puritan1648 on November 21, 2006 at 12:43 AM
It started out like a speech announcing the dissolution of the UN or at least the US’s withdraw from the union with respective eviction notice. But alas, the not only brain dead but rotting corps of an organization is being left on life support.
- The Cat
MirCat on November 21, 2006 at 12:56 AM
I’ll agree with all those here that Bolton is a great speaker who “doesn’t mince words about the truth.” (omegaram)
At the same time, what good is that. Do you really think anyone there was listening? Do you think any of those other nations cared one iota about what he said? Nothing will change, well, except that Bolton will not be there much longer, owing to domestic circumstances.
I’m with Maxx that we should get out of the UN and take our $$$ with us. Too bad the time to do it was a long time ago and it could have, should have, been over Darfur. For that, alone, the UN is worthless and for that, alone, Bush would have gotten the support to do it.
Dusty on November 21, 2006 at 1:11 AM
THAT is some quality ambassadorship going on right there.
Does anyone else here get a little choked up when the most powerful nation in the world stands up and tells the “hate Israel” crew to knock it the f*** off?
alflauren on November 21, 2006 at 1:26 AM
hear, all ye good people, hear what this brilliant and eloquent speaker has to say!
x95b10 on November 21, 2006 at 1:57 AM
Did anybody else listen to the next speaker (Iranian representative) on AP’s UN.org link? He proceeds to prove ‘Stache’s points for him. (Typical anti-US/Israel rhetoric.)
I propose a new word: UNeffective–def.-ineffective on a global scale.
hillbillyjim on November 21, 2006 at 2:54 AM
Benaiah wrote: “I would love for us to leave the UN and kick them off our shores. Its relevance ended long ago.”
I disagree.
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”
georgej on November 21, 2006 at 3:39 AM
We need soneone who doesn’t like, or know how to, speaking the truth as our representative, not someone who demands accountability.
A blob with no beliefs like RIckard Holbrooke would be so much better, and his name sounds like a UN guy, doesn’t it? HOLBROOKE…wonderful.
benrand on November 21, 2006 at 4:58 AM
How great would it have been if Bolton had been holding the mic in his hand and just tossed it on the floor and stalked off stage at the end of his speech?
Sean M. on November 21, 2006 at 5:28 AM
“This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love of his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are perishing – you who dread knowledge – I am the man who will now tell you.”
“Your ideal had an implacable enemy, which your code of morality was designed to destroy. I have withdraw that enemy. I have taken it out of your way and out of your reach…I have stopped your motor. I have deprived your world of man’s mind.”
“Men do not live by the mind, you say? I have withdrawn those who do. The mind is impotent, you say? I have withdrawn those whose mind isn’t…”
“While you were dragging to your sacrificial altars the men of justice, of independence, of reason, of wealth, of self-esteem – I beat you to it, I reached them first. I told them the nature of the game you were playing and the nature of that moral code of yours, which they had been too innocently generous to grasp.”
“All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don’t. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.”
“We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one’s happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctine that life is guilt.”
“There is a difference between our strike and all those you’ve practiced for centuries: our strike consists, not of making deminds, but of granting them. We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality – the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind.”
- Atlas Shrugged, Chapter VII, “This is John Galt Speaking”
How quickly the tune would change if the U.S. went on strike in the world, ending all foreign aid, terminating all temporary visas and deporting every undocumented alien. The world demands our abilities, our generosity, our resources, repaying us with contempt and bile. Let them have no more of us, and see how they like it.
Freelancer on November 21, 2006 at 5:58 AM
I still want to buy one of those condo’s that Trump will build over there on the river…but do you suppose you could ever get the stink out ?
DoctorDentons on November 21, 2006 at 6:08 AM
Anyone else notice the incredible irony of this? The UN was founded in the wake of Hitler’s attempted ‘final solution’ to the Jews… as a way of preventing that sort of thing from happening. Now, the UN has become a gang of thugs who are intent on completing what Hitler started… by ‘pushing Israel into the sea.’
And here I thought the Allies had won World War II.
psrch on November 21, 2006 at 9:18 AM
Forget what the Dems think about Bolton… I hope the President recess appoints Bolton again, and Bolton accepts it even though he wouldn’t be paid. We need him there a little bit longer.
Enoxo on November 21, 2006 at 9:19 AM
There is a way to pay him, at least indirectly. I’m just not sure it would be legal. A non-profit foundation could be set up and Bolton could be on it’s payroll. All he would have to do is show up at the UN and keep doing what he’s doing. Like-minded people could show their appreciation with their financial support.
CliffHanger on November 21, 2006 at 10:27 AM
I agree. If we stopped giving aid to countries like EGYPT for a few years, pulled our boys out of European bases and South Korean bases and became isolationists for awhile, I wonder what would happen? No more rescue operations either. Let Europe manage Western Civ for a few years and then let’s see what happens to the world. That is a scary thought…
robblefarian on November 21, 2006 at 11:42 AM
We were staunch isolationists prior to WWI. If you look at that period in history you will find a lot of the same forces lining up again. The banana republic wars were over for the most part and the citizens just wanted out of the world. (guess what religion and nationality the assassin was who shot the prince and got the ball rolling for WWI?) I would be for an isolationist govt. if I hadn’t already seen what happens when the US leaves the stage to the character actors. We either learn to figure things out in a different way this time or the floor may be too big to mop up. Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it, welcome to the human race…
serenity on November 21, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Let’s get out of the UN and get the UN out of America. They stand for nothing except their perks and preening. How do we accomplish this? Who do we call? Where do we email and write?
sharinlite on November 21, 2006 at 1:09 PM
The UN = A whorehouse w/flags.
No offense to whorehouses, of course.
Teddy on November 21, 2006 at 2:21 PM
Thanks, Freelancer, I now know that I have to go get that book!! I knew it was one I SHOULD read, but have just never gotten around to it. You just gave me the push I needed!!
tickleddragon on November 21, 2006 at 4:23 PM
What a strange statement. You are hired to do a job, you do it effectivly and you are called “a tool”. A hammer is a tool, and Bolton dropped the hammer on the in-effectiviness of the U.N., a broom is a tool, and he swept away any pretense of objectiviy by the U.N.
The shovel is a tool and he buried the anti-semetic rhetoric. Bolton has bravely stepped up where so many before him cowered. Every leader should have a “Bolton” in his toolbox, we would be a lot better off.
right2bright on November 21, 2006 at 4:52 PM