"calling John Bolton a diplomat is like calling Jack the Ripper a surgeon"

[leftchick]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives//2005/03/08/bolton_diplomacy.html


Bolton diplomacy
George Bush's decision to nominate John Bolton as the next ambassador to the UN is tantamount to releasing a fox in a chicken coop. Bolton, now undersecretary for arms control, has hardly bothered to hide his contempt for the world body. In 1994, he told a conference: "If the UN secretariat building in New York lost 10 storeys, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

Writing in Slate online magazine, Fred Kaplan predicts that the Bush administration will regret its latest appointment. As Kaplan rightly notes, the UN has its problems. For starters, the organisation is being investigated by an independent panel for its handling of the oil-for-food programme, an episode that has unleashed a torrent of criticism from Congress, especially among rightwing Republicans. However, as Kaplan argues, while it is no bad thing for Bush to have appointed some hard-nosed official - a latter-day Daniel Patrick Moynihan - to run the US mission who has no problem with the concept of international law, Bolton, as a matter of principle, opposes everything about it. Or as Ian Williams puts it pithily on the Global Vision News Network, "calling John Bolton a diplomat is bit like calling Jack the Ripper a surgeon".

[etherealtruth]

1. Excellent simile n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Or, like calling conservatives "compassionate".

[UTUSN]

3. Did G.E. Russert Ask Condo About Him? STEPANOPOULIS Didn't

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3262553

[DBoon]

4. Except that Jack the Ripper might actually have been a surgeon

While Bolton has never had a diplomatic thought in his life.

[leftchick]

6. good point...

Jack was pretty handy with a knife. While Bolton is just plain fucking useless.

[bpilgrim]

5. little Eichmann

what... is that against the DU orthodoxy :evilgrin:

peace

[Swamp Rat]

7. He changed his toupee and got rhinoplasty, but he's still an ugly lizard.

:D

[Snotcicles]

8. They are trying to dismantle the U.N.

that way the other countrys can't put sanctions on us when we get out of line. Like starting wars ect.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. "Like putting Dracula in charge of the bloodbank"

as Ian Masters just stated on his radio program. Ian Masters' radio show "Background Briefing" is one of the finest progressive shows in America, for getting down to the real nitty gritty. You can listen to it live here (link to KPFK at the bottom, left of his web page):

http://www.ianmasters.org/