Democracy or Dictatorship?
Ok, so I don't know US law, particularly in respect to US politics, but I'm starting to wonder what kind of system they have in place here. For those that don't know John Bolton has been appointed by Bush as the
So why is this a problem, well there are a couple of things wrong with it. First of all the nomination of the UN ambassador apparently needs a 2/3 vote in the Senate, which Mr. Bolton did not get. But who cares about those little details, Bush certainly doesn't, that's why he went ahead and appointed him anyway...I wonder if I can use any of that logic when I pay my taxes?
The bigger problem to all this (apparently I don't really mind the undermining of political process, may have something to do with running a bike club for a couple of years) is that Mr. Bolton has in the past shit all over the UN. A choice statement taken from a CBC article back in April has Mr. Bolton saying "the peace enforcement operations and nation-building should be relegated to history's junk pile". So is this really the best possible candidate to be a UN ambassador? Hell this makes the choice to make Ginger Spice an ambassador look like an act of pure genius!
I seriously don't know what the hell is going on with this country. When someone who has open disdain for an organization as important as the UN is chosen to be the
posted by Christopher Robin at 8:34 a.m.
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I completely agree with you that sending Mr. Bolton to work at the UN is a Very Bad Thing. That's because I like the UN, and Mr. Bolton's appointment looks to me like a deliberate attempt to sabotage it--another diplomatic slap in the face from America to the Rest of the World.
George Bush and the other cowboys that have hijacked the White House these days recognize the UN as the one institution in the world that could (through the collective action of its member states) act as a check on US power in the world.
What's more, the UN carries a great deal of political clout, even in the US--if the UN strongly supports or denounces something, a significant number of US voters take that very seriously.
This double threat to American/Bush power is the rationale behind the current US strategy for dealing with the UN: weaken it in every way possible. Appointing an overly conservative, hyper-nationalist, UN bashing anti-diplomat as the US's official representative at the UN is just one way to accomplish that goal.
10:49 p.m.
I agree with you on the fact that Bolton was a lousy choice for the UN, if you actually want a diplomat to, oh, improve relations with other countries. If your idea of diplomacy is to ram your ideas down others throats and pretend that a visit to a ranch in Texas makes it up, then he is good.
That said, recess appointments do have a long history, are provided for legally, and have been used by Republican and Democratic presidents.
7:49 a.m.
that's an easy question....dictatorship
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9:40 a.m.
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