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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

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.

No offense to whorehouses, of course.

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?

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…

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.

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.

The UN has its roots in a good cause after WWII.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

I disagree.

“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.”

I propose a new word: UNeffective–def.-ineffective on a global scale.

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?

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.

- The Cat

Bolton is generally a tool, but I have to agree with him on this one. There should be no compromising on human rights. — Constantine

…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!

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.

Why is there so much opposition to such quality representation of United Stated interests in the UN?