Has John Bolton started his shake-up at the UN?
According to a Reuters article
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17256031.htm
The US delegation has requested that the UN scrap much of a draft UN reform plan that is in its final stages.
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One option put forward by Washington would be to return to square one and launch line-by-line negotiations on the document, the diplomats said, insisting on anonymity so as not to anger Washington.
The worst part about this is that the USA has been participating in the process and has already agreed to many of the reforms. Diplomats stated that contentious issues already settled would be re-opened.
The United States has been a regular participant in the negotiations, and diplomats involved in the drafting said Washington has had a major impact on the document to date.
They said that was why they were surprised to learn that the United States had at this stage circulated a document that proposed eliminated most of the latest draft and suggested starting line-by-line reconsideration with all 191 U.N. members invited to the table.
Apparently the problem is how the UN deals with poverty and world hunger.
But the section of the document on development and poverty was the top target of the U.S. revisions, a tactic certain to anger developing nations, which make up the overwhelming majority of the U.N. membership, the diplomats said.
Is this the public unveiling of a colonialist USA, or the realization of Neocon ideas, where the USA as the only superpower should mold the world under its thumb (until the country collapses under its obligations and hubris).