Send The Reformer
The Wall Street Opinion Journal has an excellent editorial today entitled, The U.N.’s Tipping Point, The real reformer is John Bolton, not Kofi Annan.. The writer makes an excellent point about the timing of Bolton’s confirmation by writing the following:
“Today–maybe, possibly, fingers crossed, and if Jupiter is in the Seventh House–the Senate will vote for cloture in the debate over John Bolton’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, meaning he will at last get the up-or-down vote he has been denied for months. And barring further surprises–no ruling those out, either–Mr. Bolton will be confirmed, meaning he may finally get down to the serious work that confronts the United States at the U.N, particularly in the matter of organizational reform.
For those who are genuine friends of the U.N.’s better ambitions–and we count ourselves among them–the pity is this didn’t happen a lot sooner. While Senate Democrats Joe Biden and Chris Dodd have been tearing open every mattress to find evidence of Mr. Bolton’s sinful behavior–and finding none–the gravity of the U.N.’s internal crises have only become more apparent.
Thus a bipartisan report on the U.N., released today and written by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, notes that “until and unless it changes dramatically, the United Nations will remain an uncertain instrument, both for the governments that comprise it and for those who look to it for salvation.”
We would certainly hope that Senate Democrats would cease obstructing this eminently qualified individual, and allow his confirmation to move forward with an up or down vote. John Bolton is the candidate for this extremely difficult assignment. His personality and demeanor are a perfect match for aiding in the reform of the United Nations.
We certainly wouldn’t want to send any current Senate Democrat for this job. By listenening to their rhetoric on the Senate floor, one would have to conclude they would either join Kofi Annan in the oil for food corrution, or apologize for investigating him.
August 1st, 2005 at 12:00 pm
[...] As we have posted before, both here and here, John Bolton it the right man at the right time to bring some much needed shakeup at the United Nations. With so much corruption and scandal at the UN, we need a man with the character, strength, and stamina to represent the United States as our Ambassador. [...]