Bolton threatened UN member countries to do what US says or. . . .

[donsu]

http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=16236


U.N. Faces New Political Threats From U.S.


John Bolton, the abrasive U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been dubbed by one New York newspaper as "a human wrecking ball", is living up to every critic's gloomy expectations.

Last week, he threatened U.N. member states, specifically the 132 developing nations, that if they don't play ball with the United States, Washington may look elsewhere to settle international problems.

"It is obvious," Jim Paul of the New York-based Global Policy Forum told IPS, "that Washington has once again threatened the United Nations with its usual warning: 'Do what we say, or we will send you into oblivion"'. He said Bolton's message is clear, "If you don't, we will wreck you."

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"Bolton himself, who said in a debate with me in 1994 that 'there is no United Nations', has now surpassed his own quote, claiming he is enjoying his job as ambassador to the United Nations because it is 'a target-rich environment'," Bennis told IPS.

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Bolton is in bad need of a comedown

may he choke on one of his mustache hairs

[NanceGreggs]

1. So Bolton is threatening to take his ball home ...

... if no one plays the game his way.

Next Administration: ADULTS ONLY, PLEASE!



:cry:

[indepat]

6. Bolton must think if you got them by the balls, their hearts and minds

will follow.

[spindrifter]

2. Someone should lock

B*lton out of his U.N. office. If he doesn't want to play ball, he can just go home. I cannot imagine where he thinks he is going to find an alternative. It is not like we accept the World Court. The U.N. is supposed to be a forum for international cooperation, not a bully pen.

[politicaholic]

3. Uh...he's threatening things he can't deliver...

I don't think he realizes his impotence on a global scale when it comes to commerce, the main effective method that the United States has against most nations in the world.

Perhaps he could call for sanctions, but that doesn't mean that the sanctions would happen, especially if certain businesses have interests there such as Haliburton, Bechtel, GE, Standard Electric, Microsoft, Walmart, Nike...shall I go on?

[teryang]

4. A madman represents the lunatic corporate regime

How appropriate. The more extreme they become, the more influence they lose.

[IChing]

8. He can't be removed until 2007 (or even voted against)

Which should be a bone of contention for our 2006 election.
I hope someway he is implicated in the Plame affair, or any of the scandals that are showing up daily.

[teryang]

9. He is only symptomatic of a profound downward spiral...

...in our status in the international community. I actually prefer it that they have this a-hole out front.

[flordehinojos]

5. seems BOLTON enjoys being a BULLY

Bolton+Warning+Bullying. I wonder if HE is the one who WARNED JANE GOODALL against the use of the word PEACE. the compass seems to be so clearly pointing towards him. It also sounds such much like when POPPY BUSH, through his henchmen, told the CLINTONS before the 1992 presidential campaign, "DON'T RUN THIS TIME. IF YOU DON'T RUN THIS TIME WE WILL GIVE YOU A FREE PASS NEXT TIME." Clinton wondered what that meant but he did what he wanted to do. In a CBS 60 MINUTES interview where he and Hillary talked about Jennifer Flowers the lights on the set came crashing down, and would have crashed down on the Clintons had it not been for a producer who noticed the lights starting to crash down and quickly got the Clintons out of the couch on which they were sitting before the lights and the electricity got to them.

[IndianaGreen]

7. Time is not on Bolton's side

Come 2007, a new Congress takes over and Bolton's recess appointment expires.

[LunaC]

10. It’s the PNAC motto - what else did we expect?

Excerpt from PNAC 101 - Rise of the Neocons

There are countries to plunder and fortunes to be made. You have it, we want it. Do as we say or suffer the consequences.

I’m not the least bit surprised that he’s being a bully at the U.N….he’s just following the script.

[liberalitch]

11. Doesn't the UN have ANY parliamenatry "tools".....

that they can use to quell people like him?
Or are we dealing with the league of nations here?