Ill-will Ambassador

[NVMojo]

John Bolton is a man best known for sabotaging international treaties and alienating entire nations. That's why he's been picked to be the US ambassador to the United Nations.




In a breath-taking victory for right-wing hawks, President George W. Bush has nominated a die-hard unilateralist to become his next ambassador to the United Nations.


John Bolton is best known as one of the most confrontational, combative, and humorless figures within the administration, having earned his formidable reputation as the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security during Bush's first term.


''This is like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse," said Heather Hamilton, vice president of programs for Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) (formerly the World Federalist Association).


The Armageddon Nominee


John Bolton, Hamilton says, is the ''Armageddon nominee,'' alluding to the words of former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who once admiringly described Bolton as ''the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at Armageddon, if it should be my lot to be on hand for what is forecast to be the final battle between good and evil in this world."

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http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2067&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[cornermouse]

1. Molly Ivins' take on Bolton

http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=miv

She nails him.

[Why Syzygy]

2. I've had it

with these dooms-day people.

Do they really want to bring about the end of the world or just make us all wish they would? (I don't.)

They better hope "good" doesn't show up.

[Why Syzygy]

3. This guy is whacko

Writing in the Weekly Standard on October 4, 1999, he denounced what he called "Kofi Annan's UN Power Grab." And he said that President Clinton, in defending NATO's intervention in the Balkans, should have rejected Annan's claim that the United States should have come to the Security Council. "The correct American response, for those who supported the NATO campaign, is: "We did not need the Security Council's permission to act." That's familiar language. In fact, it's the Bush Administration mantra.

http://www.progressive.org/webex05/wx030805.php

Can someone define "rogue nation" for me?