Anti-UN Bolton is a hilarious ambassador (Ivins)

<snip> Bolton is known for being arrogant, humorless, self-righteous and confrontational, and he hates the United Nations. In other words, the perfect diplomat.

Speaking of setups, would the joke be half as good if President Bush hadn’t just returned from a tour of Europe during which he assured our allies he was anxious to improve international cooperation? There, he was promising Europeans old and new that we’d turned a new page, we want nothing more than consultation, cooperation, being buddy-buddy. And then he names Bolton ambassador (oh, ha ha) to the United Nations (ha, ha, ha). Bolton keeps a bronzed grenade in his office to show how proud he is of being called a bomb-thrower. <snip>

Bolton has maddened both North Korea and Iran, not really stable places to begin with, but moderates were gaining ground in Iran. He’s the genius who claimed Fidel Castro was starting a germ weapons program, a claim promptly denied by the rest of the administration. <snip>

Bolton’s former employer, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, said he is “the kind of man I would want to stand with me at Armageddon.” With Bolton’s version of “diplomacy,” we can move up the date for
Armageddon.

http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1047167&t=Opinion&c=22,1047167

Great article! Thanks for the link.

make one smile thru tears of terror.

are not laughing at the UN.

that's because some real diplomats work there.