LETTER FROM EUROPE: Catching the Worm
Gedmin, Jeffrey
LETTER FROM EUROPE JEFFREY GEDMIN Catching the Worm wns AN EARLY BIRD when I worked at the American Enterprise Institute. So was John Bolton. It seemed that no matter how...
...His critics flip over such talk...
...Of course, Communist Beijing has a permanent seat on the Security Council, China is a huge market, and the People's Republic has nuclear weapons...
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...To this day, Israel has never been allowed a rotating seat on the Security Council...
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...Kofi Annan has said the Human Rights Commission must change...
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...This is manifestly untrue...
...Without a doubt, Bolton speaks his mind and it upsets some distinguished people...
...It's amusing, by the way, to hear U.N...
...Bolton once said that if the U.N...
...Well, the U.N...
...The building did not collapse when Daniel Patrick Moynihan denounced the U.N.'s "Zionism is racism" as "a lie...
...The United Nations denied having videotapes of the kidnappers...
...A couple years ago, the US...
...I did see him order an English muffin once at a breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel, but I can't say he ate it...
...Yup, that would have grabbed everyone's attention...
...He believes in multilateralism, but the effective kind, not the woolly-headed, feel good silliness so many liberal-left apparatchicks adore...
...J E F F R E Y G E D M N was booted off and replaced by Sudan...
...It is chock-full of dictatorships that bully and bribe the democracies so as to avoid censure year after year...
...because he is so undiplomatic...
...Libya recently served as its chairman...
...Take these three areas: First, there is the sad joke known as the U.N...
...It was Bolton, in fact, who helped introduce the "Proliferation Security Initiative" (PSI) aimed at interdicting weapons trafficking on the high seas...
...This reminds me of a conversation between two young AEI staffers...
...Hold on, Kofi...
...finally disclosed the tapes, the faces of the abductors had been obscured in the name of U.N...
...One said she wondered whether John Bolton ever slept...
...Human Rights Commission...
...Saudi Arabia, China, and Cuba sit on the commission...
...This is nonsense...
...Sorry, Sid...
...In 1991, as a member of the first Bush administration, Bolton helped repeal the infamous "Zionism is racism" resolution...
...is never neutral on Israel...
...So did the French press...
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...For decades, the Jewish state was excluded from participating in U.N...
...Remember several years ago when Hezbollah kid-napped three Israeli soldiers...
...Two years ago he referred to North Korea as a tyranny...
...was doubtless working to convince the Sudanese government that slavery and mass murder are undesirable (so far, no tangible results...
...neutrality...
...Bolton is a pragmatist...
...Sidney Blumenthal asserts in the Guardian, that Bolton, as the official in charge of arms control at the State Department, "has wrecked 42 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR MAY 2005 P all the non-proliferation diplomacy within his reach...
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...enthusiasts praise the world body as an antidote to the "might-makesright" dictates from Washington...
...Bolton has always been sympathetic to Taiwan's desire for independence and membership in the U.N...
...Kim Jong Il countered by calling Bolton "human scum" and a "blood sucker...
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...Bolton is an "ideologue...
...He knows as well as anyone about the shameful discrimination Israel has suffered at the U.N...
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...The critics have generally all said the same thing...
...survived the fairly rough-and-tumble truthtelling years of Jeane Kirkpatrick...
...The { other claimed no one had ever seen him eat...
...But the U.N...
...When the President announced that John Bolton would go to the United Nations, there were cries of horror from the usual circles...
...But I am still betting that Bolton might finally move the U.N.'s—and America's—China debate a step or two in the right direction...
...L E T T E R F R O M E U R O P E J E F F R E Y G E D M I N Catching the Worm wns AN EARLY BIRD when I worked at the American Enterprise Institute...
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...His detractors say Bolton will wreck the U.N...
...In doing so, they are making a tremendous difference to the world today and the one they will leave behind...
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...Bolton may be ready to help...
...It was only in the 1990s that Israel was permitted to sit on a U.N...
...I suspect that the U.N...
...in New York, with the caption: "The new American Ambassador arrives to present his credentials...
...Through its "quiet diplomacy" the U.N...
...When the U.N...
...My favorite: Bolton atop a tank, busting through a wall at the U.N...
...Finally, there is Israel...
...Yes, I know policy is made in Washington and the "One China" crowd still prevails...
...might even benefit a bit from Bolton's directness...
...John Kerry, who wanted to become president to make the United States more like France, decried the nomination...
...building in New York lost ten of its 38 stories, no one would notice...
...He is an internationalist, not an isolationist...
...I visited Bolton at his State Department office a few weeks before his Senate confirmation hearing...
...This is apparently what worries his fiercest critics...
...commission...
...It seemed that no matter how early I arrived—I could be at my desk as early as 5:00 a.m.—John's office, which was at the end of the corridor from mine, was already open, ready for business...
...Then there is the question of China and Taiwan...
...Bolton is actually pretty easy to read...
...I think John Bolton is a little like coach Joe Gibbs was during the Redskins' glory years—a maniacal worker, a student of every detail of his game, a cot-in-theoffice kind of guy...
...With Bolton in New York, the U.N.'s Israel debate is bound to change...
Vol. 38 • May 2005 • No. 4
