Bolton and the "Global Test"

Posted by: Bill of Right
on April 25, 2005 @ 06:50 PM EST

An editorial appearing on the Center for Security Policy's website makes one of the better arguments I've seen regarding John Bolton:

The people who tried to defeat George W. Bush are the same people who are now trying to defeat his nominee for the United Nations, John R. Bolton. And George Soros, MoveOn.org, the Democratic Party machinery and, not least, John Kerry are hoping to demonstrate, by so doing, that they were right all along on what is, arguably, the most important national security issue of our time: Does America need to pass a "global test" to protect its vital interests?
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He took his case to the American people that the United Nations had ceased to function as its founders had envisioned - namely, as an engine for the protection and expansion of freedom. He argued that, if the institution were not to go the way of the feckless and ultimately disastrous League of Nations, it had to be willing to enforce its resolutions when, as with Iraq, they were critical to international security. And he explicitly sought a renewed mandate for providing American leadership when the UN could not, or would not, do so.

George Bush won on that platform. John Kerry and his ilk lost. George Bush wants an ambassador to the United Nations who supported the aforementioned policies and stances and who will effectively represent them on the East River. John Kerry, Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer and Christopher Dodd think we should have, instead, an ambassador who reflects their popularly repudiated view.

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