As ambassador Bolton took his seat in the General Assembly Chamber for the first time, he noticed a strong, and peculiar odor coming from his left, eminating from the area of French Delegation...
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| Steyn: Nuts and Bolton |
| 2005-03-20 |
| No comments from me - they'd pale next to Steyn's If you're going to play the oldest established permanent floating transnational crap game for laughs, you might as well pick an act with plenty of material. What I love about John Bolton, America's new ambassador to the UN, is the sheer volume of 'damaging' material. Usually, the Democrats and media have to riffle through decades of dreary platitudes to come up with one potentially exploitable infelicitous soundbite. But with Bolton the damaging quotes are hanging off the trees and dropping straight into your bucket. Five minutes' casual mooching through the back catalogue and your cup runneth over: The UN? 'There is no such thing as the United Nations.' The UN building? 'If you lost ten storeys, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.' Reform of the Security Council? 'If I were redoing the Security Council, I'd have one permanent member ...the United States.' The International Criminal Court? 'Fuzzy-minded romanticism ...not just naive but dangerous.' |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #8 BTW, I forgot to pay proper homage to Steyn for the Title - LOL! Beautiful! |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-20 3:38:10 PM |
| #7 Steyn in perfect form, as usual. A great read. I wonder if Steyn would be willing to write for Bush. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-03-20 1:28:49 PM |
| #6 Even better, Bolton's the guy Baker sent to Dade County with the Supremes stop right now you cheating whores writ. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-20 12:24:33 PM |
| #5 I would suggest, Cynic, that Ms Phillips has made a series of assumptions, products of inductive logic, and piled them one atop another to reach this sinister conclusion. There is zip actual substance to support her climb to the lofty height of saying Dr Rice is a Tranzi Turncoat, save her own imagination. One comment does not a philosophy make. What, pray tell, would prevent President Bush, should the dire aspects of Ms Phillips' imagination begin to take shape, from stopping such idiocy dead in its tracks? All of the individuals, including the "tainted" Dr Rice, serve at the pleasure of the President - who can thus dismiss any or all simply because he has indigestion, not to mention one or more are subverting his policies? Certainly there are small differences between people who agree upon larger goals. Certainly there are personal agendas which may vary in places from the Team Agenda. Adults get past that - and work for the Team. To suggest Dr Rice is a Trojan Horse of some sort and booster of agendas contrary to President Bush is a reach -- I most certainly doubt Ms Phillips is privy to all of the machinations that go on behind the scenes in the Bush Admin... More than once we have heard or seen Admin officials seemingly out in left field, and later discovered the reasons behind those moments. They were not discordant notes, they were part of the score. After the concert, all you hear, besides the despair & ever more conspiracy theories from the DU, are the MSM cries of Rovian Plots and applause from the Patriots. Pfeh. They're Bush Team achievements. I have faith in Bush and Rice and I believe they are on the same page. I do not have the same confidence in Ms Phillips' mental meanderings -- and certainly not based upon an isolated comment or two, no matter what alarm bells were set off in her mind. It's interesting fodder for a lazy Sunday afternoon, granted, but the substance is missing for anything other than mild interest. Back on topic, and back in character, lol, I think Steyn nails the UN / Trazi bitches to the fucking wall, heh. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-20 11:59:15 AM |
| #4 As ambassador Bolton took his seat in the General Assembly Chamber for the first time, he noticed a strong, and peculiar odor coming from his left, eminating from the area of French Delegation... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-20 11:43:18 AM |
| #3 Not quite OT since Bolton is the subject but this from Melanie Phillips A shadow no bigger than Condi's hand I suspect she is nearer to the State Department view of the world than people might think, although she is smart enough to conceal it pretty effectively. My guess is that she will take whatever opportunity she can to nudge the President ever so gently in the wrong direction. And with Wolfowitz and Bolton out of the way, it will surely be easier to do so. |
| Posted by: Cynic 2005-03-20 11:30:32 AM |
| #2 >UN. Keep movin', movin', movin', Though they're disapprovin', Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide! |
| Posted by: Clint 2005-03-20 10:47:51 AM |
| #1 Word. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-03-20 10:37:01 AM |