Daily Ramblings:
Most Likely You Go Your Way
...03/08/2005
09:08:24 am
The endorsements of the nomination
of John Bolton to be the new U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations keep rolling in:
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry says "... this is just about the most
inexplicable appointment the President could make to
represent the United States to the world community
... If the President is serious about reaching out to
the world, why would he choose someone who has
expressed such disdain for working with our allies?
... Mr Bolton once celebrated our failure to win the
U.N.'s support for the Iraq invasion as 'further
evidence to many why nothing more should be paid to
the U.N. system.' Now we're supposed to believe he's
the right person to represent the United States at
the United Nations?"
You said it, Senator. And the fact
that you characterize it as "our failure"
to win the U.N.'s support, rather than the U.N.'s
failure to support holding Saddam Hussein to
account, just sums up how hopelessly out of touch
with reality you are. Bolton understands who has
failed and who has succeeded over the last several
tumultous years. Some people apparently never will.
More ringing praise from Jude Wanniski at
AntiWar.com:
As I was driving back to the
office at midday today, I heard a news report
that President Bush had nominated John Bolton to
be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. My
heart skipped a beat, and I could feel my blood
pressure climb through the roof. John Bolton.
Ugh. This is the bottom of the barrel. It's
almost impossible to imagine the president
nominating anyone worse than Bolton, a
certified bully who has single-handedly done more
to poison our relations with China, North Korea,
and Iran than any other bureaucrat in the Bush
administration. He is one of Richard
Perle's principle henchmen in the neocon cabal to
conquer the world with U.S. military might.
Wanniski goes on to demonstrate his
unerring prowess at predicting the moves of the Bush
administration:
Only a few weeks back, for
goodness sakes, I had celebrated when
Bolton lost his bid to become deputy secretary of
state to Condi Rice. Instead, she chose
Robert Zoellick, the U.S. trade representative
the last four years, a certified diplomat who
really believes in diplomacy. At the NATO
workshop I attended in Lisbon over this last
weekend, I cited Bolton's decline and
Zoellick's elevation as a sign that the neocons
had been set back and we might be able to expect
a more reasonable foreign policy emanating from
Washington in the second Bush administration.
In other words Mr. Wanniski thought
that a series of stunning foreign policy successes
and a decisive victory in 2004's Presidential
election would have convinced President Bush that it
was now time to give in to his critics and govern
somewhat more like John Kerry would.
Amazing, but consistent with other
aspects of the mass delusion affecting the American
left.
The Democrats now have to decide if they will make
a real attempt to block Bolton, or instead do a
"Condi" on him - i.e. don't obstruct his
nomination, but use the hearings to grandstand and
drown both him and President Bush in vitriol. And all
this with an eye on the poll numbers, in a nation
where only 32% approved of the job the United Nations
is doing in a recent survey. (Sounds to me like
the American people, given the choice, would have
picked someone very like John Bolton to go in there
and give those multilaterally malignant failures some
hell.)
The confirmation hearings will be interesting -
you can count on it.
I'm gonna let you pass
And I'll go last.
Then time will tell just who has fell
And who's been left behind,
When you go your way and I go mine.
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