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Under Secretary of State John Bolton is to be the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. I don't really care much at this point, because it's just obvious now that they're just trying to piss off the U.N.
For instance, Bolton is quoted as saying "if the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference" and "there's no such thing as the United Nations." John Bolton also criticized the U.N. by saying that the Clinton administration had acted as if the UN "has a life or existence outside of what the U.S. wants it to do."
Of course, there might be an actual agenda to putting Bolton in this seat. I base that off of this quote by him:"First, the entire history of the United States, from the first colonists through the Revolution, and forward until today, has been infused with a distrust of government and a belief in individual liberty. The United States is a land of lower taxes, more private property, less government regulation and subsidy, greater freedom of speech and press, more toleration of diverse religious expression, and on and on. Although other individual countries may best the United States in one or another of these categories, in the aggregate, there is no real contest.
Because Americans generally are skeptical about their own government, can it be any surprise that many are less than enthusiastic about the United Nations, an organization that includes 184 other governments? Moreover, the principle business of the United Nations is governmental business, legitimately so in most cases, but it is certainly rare to find genuine capitalists walking the U.N. halls. This deep philosophical disjunction between the prevailing ethos of the United Nations and the fundamental American approach to governance is not something that will change in the foreseeable future. |
Read the rest of that memo here.
Daily Show Video Clip Here.
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