The U.N. appointment

Just when you think things can't get any worse, John Bolton is appointed ambassador to the United Nations. Sydney Blumenthal writes about it in and article entitled, "The enemy within: How an Americanist devoted to destroying international alliances became the US envoy to the UN".

Here's an excerpt:

...John Bolton has been named by President Bush as the US ambassador to the UN. If I were redoing the security council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world," Bolton once said. Lately, as undersecretary of state for arms control, he has wrecked all the nonproliferation diplomacy within his reach. Over the past two decades he has been the person most dedicated to trying to discredit the UN. George Orwell's clock of 1984 is striking 13.

Is Bush's real plan to try to destroy the United Nations the way he wants to destroy Social Security? It sounds as if he's out to try.

Molly Ivins seems to think so. She has written on this same subject in her article entitled, "Move up the date for Armageddon: Bolton UN appointment is slap in the face to global diplomatic community". She writes:

Bolton's contempt for the United Nations is notorious and could not be clearer. Bolton said: "There is no United Nations. ... When the United States leads, the United Nations will follow. When it suits our interests to do so, we will do so. When it does not suit our interests, we will not." Let's hear it for international consultation and consideration for everyone.

Conservative economist Jude Wanniski writes, "Does President Bush realize he is practically spitting in the faces of the global diplomatic community with his Bolton pick?

I tremble for the future of the world. I really do.