Can John Bolton be good for the United Nations? Ironically, yes. But predictably, he will not be good for us.
A sworn enemy of the UN, Bolton can be expected to take the battle to it, and carry with him the elitist psychopath attitudes toward everyone on the planet best expressed by President Bush and the Republican Party. Voinovich didn't vote against him, he held his nose and did the opposite of what his proper upbringing told him. And rather than advise and consent, this Senate Rubbers and Stamps to curry favor with the moneybringing juggernaut of the GOP. He is the worst person for the job of Ambassador to the UN, and illustrates a pattern.
Bush's decisions have disgraced Colin Powell as a marionette, who must be bound and gagged in some Foggy Bottom basement right now. So the UN knew what to expect when Condosleasa Rice earned her Secretary of State job by ignoring the PDB titled "Osama Bin Laden is Going to Hijack Planes and Crash them into Major Sites in the US". Hey- isn't she the Russia expert presiding over the security apparatus of the US? The same one who helped Bush stop securing portable Russian Nukes? The one in charge of State when Russia got a new Oil Pipeline because despite their terrible mideast relations they're better than ours are? And hey- she has Africa experience, sitting on the Chevron board when the machine-gunned all those dangerous Nigerians.
But good for the UN; Bolton will be singularly ineffective in furthering our interests but a uniter of our competitors. He already disgraced our partners in the North Korea project so badly the State Department stopped letting him speak for himself. The only interest he serves is conflict. There's a difference between tough guy and asshole, and this guy is the latter.
The secret CIA documents Senate Democrats are rightly demanding probably indicate the name of the CIA operative the Republican Party leaked to Novack. Since we'll probably be needing the UN to unite to protect us from the oligarchy being cultivated- Andersen's aquittal by the Supreme Court and inaction in the Cheney/Enron task force case indicate our best chance for justice will be the International Criminal Court. And we can expect our international neighbors to fight hard FOR strengthening it and AGAINST Bolton.
When are the sane Republicans going to redeem themselves and jettison this administration? Not until China stops underwriting Bush's insane spending and bounced us from the Security Council as obstructionist paupers.
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Happily, there are enough Republicans committed to NO votes on the floor to keep this thing on the edge, and not enough to force cloture and bring about a full vote. Voinovich sent JB along without recommendation, holding his nose as you said, but has flatly stated he'll vote NO on the floor. Same with Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and a couple of others (see TheWashingtonNote.com).
It's not clear yet that enough Repugs will vote NO on the floor, but the force is so far against JB despite what Cheney goes around saying.
The secret docs are NSA intercepts, and they do name some names -- we just don't know who. The WH provided them to the Senate Intelligence committee, NOT the Foreign Relations committee, which raises some suspicions. Especially since the names were scrubbed. So those on the FR committee, chaired by the normally respectable Richard Lugar, are being had by the WH and they don't like it. They are right to hold off on a vote until they see exactly what's in those 10 NSA intercepts, and what nefarious shit JB was up to....
To correct my statement above, about the NSA intercepts being provided to members of the Select Intelligence Committee -- what the Administration provided were "Digests" of these intercepts, with names redacted. NOT the text of the intercepts themselves.
They are surely hiding something, since they wouldn't provide full information even to two members of the Intelligence committee (Jay Rockefeller and I can't remember the other one).
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