I've read sizable excerpts from Mr. Bolton's speech (the one where he asserted that there is no United Nations, the organization to which he has been nominated as Ambassador), but until I heard the thing in his own voice I had no idea just how awful an ambassadorial nominee he was.
Today on a computer in the IT department I found this:
and now I am posting it everywhere I can and forwarding it like it was a chain letter.
The very idea of having this raging nincompoop representing us in the UN strikes me as incredible. Yet according to NPR this evening, the Administration is still standing behind the nomination.
Am I the only person who finds the "knocking 10 stories off the UN Headquarters" notion chilling in the post-9/11 world? Well, chilling might not be the term, but both amazingly insensitive and as irritating as AI calling Gitmo a Gulag?
Haruo
pro-gay and pro-UN