Bad Boy Bolton: Our Ambassador Has ‘Become U.N.’

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Wed Jun-28-06 07:32 PM
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Bad Boy Bolton: Our Ambassador Has ‘Become U.N.’

http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=13034&ic=News+Story+2

Bad Boy Bolton: Our Ambassador Has ‘Become U.N.’

Bush Appointee Gambles That Wreaking Havoc Pleases Constituency; ‘Manner Is Grating’; Mustachioed ‘Reformer’ Is Bully in China Shop

By: Niall Stanage

Date: 7/3/2006

Diplomats at the United Nations have found U.S. Ambassador John Bolton’s behavior so inexplicable that a virtual quasi-science has sprung up, aimed at divining his true intentions.

The primary school of thought, according to one diplomat, is that Mr. Bolton, who has made plain his disdain for the world body since arriving there 11 months ago, is playing to a domestic audience of U.N. skeptics, possibly with an eye on future political ambitions.

A second theory, said another official who works in the U.N., holds that Mr. Bolton is busily storing up anecdotes that will form the basis of a book about his experiences: He did his best to change the organization, but, tragically, the bureaucracy and corruption were too much even for him to overcome.

“A lot of us wonder what his real agenda is,” a European diplomat told The Observer. “First, we think maybe he wants things to fail because then he can say, ‘We cannot reform this place.’ The other question is, does he really reflect the position in Washington? That is always the question: Is it Bolton or is it Washington?”

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There is a lot more in the article, and I couldn't find a good way to try to condense it into just four paragraphs, so I just quoted the first four paragraphs, and I recommend reading the entire article if the reader has further interest in the article.

I do recommend the article. It was well worth reading.

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Sal Minella

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Wed Jun-28-06 08:27 PM
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1. Thanks for posting this -- it's a very good article imo.

“He doesn’t believe in the U.N.,”

He was sent in to "reform" the U.N. the way we "reformed" Baghdad with bombs and white phosphorus.

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