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Old December 7th, 2006, 01:12 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe
PJ O'Donovan
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Default Left Wing nuts get Bolton

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/...igns&printer=1

About time.

Earl Evleth


December 07, 2006
The Nuts Get Bolton
By David Warren

Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.

As I have written before, with understatement, the United Nations is at
the black heart of contemporary international arrangements. It was
founded at cross-purposes, presented to the world as a beacon for
peace, when it was designed as a prize ring for realpolitik
manoeuvring. It became, by increments of Communist propaganda, the
embodiment of a shining crackpot aspiration towards world government.
When in reality it was the diplomatic cockpit for the Cold War between
the Western democracies and the Soviet Empire -- where the betting took
place in the bloody flutters between their respective third-world
proxies. Today, it is simply "on the other side".

At its best, it has at least been a clearing house, to avoid war
through the unpublicized backroom transmission of credible threats and
deadlines to the world's most depraved exponents of misrule. But its
membership reflects the plurality of the depraved. The General Assembly
is permanently stacked against the interests of all constitutional
democracies. It provides a karaoke chamber to enhance the babblings
even of despots as tone-deaf as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

But it is there, and until the Americans finally take up Jesse Helms's
suggestion, to "throw it brick by brick into the East River" -- or
remove it to a more appropriate host city, such as Mogadishu -- it will
continue to undermine the security and freedom of people everywhere, by
its machinations, while its barbarous "peacekeeping" troops rape and
pillage defenceless women and children, in Cambodia, Rwanda, Liberia,
Haiti, and seemingly any hot spot to which they are sent.

John Bolton understood the reality; yet he was also grittily determined
to undo the reality, and make the U.N. focus on the few things it could
actually accomplish to ameliorate pestilence, war, famine, and death.
His ability to speak in coherent English sentences was, like Donald
Rumsfeld's, among the qualities that would be held against him. Both
acquired the reputation of leading from the chin.

There is a deep principle at work here, contradicting what is embraced
as "diplomacy" today. It is that reasonable ideas can invariably be
communicated in clear language. For the reasonable assertion has
nothing to hide. "Doublespeak", as Orwell defined, is the substance
within which ideas are hidden, that would be rejected if they were
stated plainly. "Diplomatic doublespeak" goes a step further. It is the
language in which such dubious ideas are absorbed and accepted; by
which Western diplomats seek to fool themselves.

Jacques Chirac, the President of France, has recently said a very clear
thing: that the Syrian regime, currently re-arming Hezbollah in Lebanon
(under the noses of French "peacekeepers"), is beyond talking with.
That he persists in talking with exaggerated civility to the regime in
Tehran, belies his sincerity. But he is right in making a subtle point
against the dreamworld proposals now emerging from the Baker-Hamilton
"Iraq Study Group" -- the ludicrous idea that America could win the
cooperation of Syria and Iran, in extracting herself from Middle
Eastern commitments.

That very remark from President Chirac was, I strongly suspect, a
testimony to the effectiveness of Mr Bolton's work at the U.N., in
consistently confronting not only U.S. enemies, but unreliable allies,
with hard facts. A large part of his effort consisted in retrieving
facts shoved under the table, and putting them back on view. He almost
single-handedly "ran interference" for Israel's self-defence against
Hezbollah rocket attacks, in this way. He kept nominal U.S. allies in
the region out of the controversy with adept diplomacy of the better
kind: reminding each of national interests, actually at stake, and of
the consequences of indulging anti-Israeli emotions. So much of what a
U.N. ambassador does is behind the scenes.

Condoleezza Rice, the inaptly chosen U.S. Secretary of State, though
her heart may be in the right place, shows herself overwhelmed by the
complexity and danger of the current international situation. Mr Bolton
is, or rather was from the moment he announced his resignation, the
sharp and solid component of U.S. foreign policy that now falls off.
Removing and replacing him with another soft touch leaves the whole
American position in mush.

Why did he quit, when President Bush had said he wanted Mr Bolton's
appointment renewed? Because he was a team player. From the moment
Democrats in the Senate announced themselves prepared to filibuster, to
smear his renomination into the next term, Mr Bolton's tenure became
counter-productive. It would have done even more damage to U.S.
credibility to have a man struggling at Turtle Bay, whose legs were
being cut from under him in Washington, than to put in a bipartisan
wimp.



© Ottawa Citizen

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Old December 7th, 2006, 05:34 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
irwell
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Default Left Wing nuts get Bolton

On 7 Dec 2006 04:12:21 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



GOOD! He can go back to being Mr.Pastry.
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Old December 7th, 2006, 05:43 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
Earl Evleth[_1_]
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Default Left Wing nuts get Bolton

On 7/12/06 17:34, in article ,
"irwell" wrote:

On 7 Dec 2006 04:12:21 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



GOOD! He can go back to being Mr.Pastry.



Prior to Bush's dodge of giving him a recess appointment, some
50 American diplomats submitted the following protesting his
appointment.

The American anti-UN right loved him but nobody considered
him a diplomat. He was kicked out of the State Department
to avoid his walking on Condi's toes.

The Bush administration was full of people like him, which
is why the nation is in a terrible fix now. The "know nothings"
came to power. All of them fit the PJ O'Donovan model of idiocy.

****





"Diplomats Declare Bolton Has "Exceptional Record" Undermining U.S.
Interests"

It's all over the news, but let me add my own piece on the 59 former
American diplomats who have written to Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar to say that the choice of John Bolton
could not be more wrong for America's perch in the U.N.

AP's Barry Schweid reports:

The ex-diplomats have served in both Democratic and Republican
administrations, some for long terms and others briefly. They include
Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under
Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for
European affairs under President Nixon.

Others who signed the letter include James F. Leonard, deputy
ambassador to the U.N. in the Ford and Carter administrations;
Princeton N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under
Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton; Monteagle Stearns,
ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan
administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., deputy director of the Arms
Control Agency in the Carter administration.
`
Their criticism dwelled primarily on Bolton's stand on issues as the
State Department's senior arms control official. They said he had an
"exceptional record" of opposing U.S. efforts to improve national
security through arms control.


****


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Old December 7th, 2006, 09:19 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe
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"Fred Bloggs" kirjoitti
. com...
In article m,
says...
Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/...igns&printer=1

About time.

Earl Evleth


December 07, 2006
The Nuts Get Bolton
By David Warren

Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.


Let's face it, Bolton was foisted on the US Congress by a Shrubbery mad
with their own power, who thought they didn't need to be accountable to
the democratic institutions. Now they're learning why that was wrong.
Frankly, they seem damned unappreciative of the valuable lesson in
practical politics they're being taught.

[snipped unreadable drivel]



© Ottawa Citizen



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Old December 7th, 2006, 09:25 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe
Fred Bloggs
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Default Left Wing nuts get Bolton

In article m,
says...
Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/...igns&printer=1

About time.

Earl Evleth


December 07, 2006
The Nuts Get Bolton
By David Warren

Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.


Let's face it, Bolton was foisted on the US Congress by a Shrubbery mad
with their own power, who thought they didn't need to be accountable to
the democratic institutions. Now they're learning why that was wrong.
Frankly, they seem damned unappreciative of the valuable lesson in
practical politics they're being taught.

[snipped unreadable drivel]



© Ottawa Citizen


  #6  
Old December 7th, 2006, 09:29 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe
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Default Left Wing nuts get Bolton


"Fred Bloggs" wrote in message
.. .
In article m,
says...
Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/...igns&printer=1

About time.

Earl Evleth


December 07, 2006
The Nuts Get Bolton
By David Warren

Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.


Let's face it, Bolton was foisted on the US Congress by a Shrubbery mad
with their own power, who thought they didn't need to be accountable to
the democratic institutions. Now they're learning why that was wrong.
Frankly, they seem damned unappreciative of the valuable lesson in
practical politics they're being taught.

[snipped unreadable drivel]



© Ottawa Citizen



Bolton was rejected by more than one Republican Senator not so much for his
political attitude but for his bullying behaviour to his subordinates.


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Old December 7th, 2006, 09:29 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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We poofs have figured out how to use filters to stop postings sent to a
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Old December 7th, 2006, 10:40 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
Runge
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Nice OT thread, eh evleth ?
No abuses for you ?

"Earl Evleth" a écrit dans le message de news:
...
On 7/12/06 17:34, in article ,
"irwell" wrote:

On 7 Dec 2006 04:12:21 -0800, "PJ O'Donovan" wrote:

Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



GOOD! He can go back to being Mr.Pastry.



Prior to Bush's dodge of giving him a recess appointment, some
50 American diplomats submitted the following protesting his
appointment.

The American anti-UN right loved him but nobody considered
him a diplomat. He was kicked out of the State Department
to avoid his walking on Condi's toes.

The Bush administration was full of people like him, which
is why the nation is in a terrible fix now. The "know nothings"
came to power. All of them fit the PJ O'Donovan model of idiocy.

****





"Diplomats Declare Bolton Has "Exceptional Record" Undermining U.S.
Interests"

It's all over the news, but let me add my own piece on the 59 former
American diplomats who have written to Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar to say that the choice of John Bolton
could not be more wrong for America's perch in the U.N.

AP's Barry Schweid reports:

The ex-diplomats have served in both Democratic and Republican
administrations, some for long terms and others briefly. They include
Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under
Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for
European affairs under President Nixon.

Others who signed the letter include James F. Leonard, deputy
ambassador to the U.N. in the Ford and Carter administrations;
Princeton N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under
Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton; Monteagle Stearns,
ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan
administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., deputy director of the Arms
Control Agency in the Carter administration.
`
Their criticism dwelled primarily on Bolton's stand on issues as the
State Department's senior arms control official. They said he had an
"exceptional record" of opposing U.S. efforts to improve national
security through arms control.


****






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Old December 7th, 2006, 10:41 PM posted to alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe
Runge
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Default Left Wing nuts get Bolton

Please do not follow the crosspost

"John Rennie" a écrit dans le message de news:
...

"Fred Bloggs" wrote in message
.. .
In article m,
says...
Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will
step
down when his temporary appointment expires within weeks, the White
House
said Monday.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061204/...igns&printer=1

About time.

Earl Evleth


December 07, 2006
The Nuts Get Bolton
By David Warren

Perhaps the best ambassador to the U.N. that the U.S. has had for a
generation, has resigned rather than put his country and the Bush
administration through the spectacle of being retroactively "Borked" by
a soon Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate. John Bolton was detested by
many senators (and admired by a few) as much for his robust personal
qualities, as for his proven ability to advance U.S. interests through
the chambers of the world's most ponderous, cumbersome, and therefore
thankfully ineffective, anti-American institution.


Let's face it, Bolton was foisted on the US Congress by a Shrubbery mad
with their own power, who thought they didn't need to be accountable to
the democratic institutions. Now they're learning why that was wrong.
Frankly, they seem damned unappreciative of the valuable lesson in
practical politics they're being taught.

[snipped unreadable drivel]



© Ottawa Citizen



Bolton was rejected by more than one Republican Senator not so much for
his political attitude but for his bullying behaviour to his subordinates.





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Old December 8th, 2006, 04:03 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
Gregory Morrow[_1_]
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David Horne wrote:

Markku Grönroos wrote:

perhaps you lesbian further narrow the list of receiving groups


We poofs have figured out how to use filters to stop postings sent to a
lot of newsgroups. I suggest you take the voddy bottle out of your mouth
for a minute, your small fingers out of your arse, and then figure out
how to filter out crossposts, and at the same time stop picking on
random minorities for your own shortcomings.



Oh jeez, David, let's give the hebe yid faggot lesbian Markku a
BREAK...after all it gets VERY cold* up there in Finland this time of
year, ya know...

[*But at least the Gulf of Finland is frozen over so's he can WALK over
to Tallinn to get his duty - free booze...]

;-)

--
Best
Greg

 




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