O.K. I'm overseas, looking at you from a distance. I don't know really what you are thinking except what I read your leaders are saying on your behalf. And this is what I understand you are saying about the United Nations:
"Being practical, Americans say that either we need to fix the institution or we'll turn to some other mechanism to solve international problems," he said in a speech to several hundred people as part of the Jesse Helms Lecture Series at Wingate University.
So you Americans are saying that you might destroy the one institution that, however faulty, offers hope in this world? The institution which has carried our ambitions for peace and unity ever since the end of World War 2 and which has represented the one gain for which so many of our fathers and mothers died for in their struggle against tyrannies. Damn you, all you Americans.
Yeah, I know that you would like to nuance it - to explain that you are not party to what is being said by John Bolton, your bully boy Ambassador to the United Nations.
Why should I bother to make distinctions about precisely which Americans are saying these things. You are all Americans aren't you?
You can read what John Bolton is saying on your behalf in this AP report
You do remember John Bolton, don't you? He is one of those appointments, like Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank, that have been carefully placed in key world positions to carry out the neocon agenda, out of sight and out of mind, whilst attention is focused on the Roves and the Libbys within the stuffy confines of the White House. These other guys have been let loose on the wider world - our world not your American owned world - a world that they want to recreate in your damn American image.
Ah, yes. There was that dreadful decision, since rescinded, that was taken as recently as 1995..er no..1985...er...1975 to prove your point that the UN is defunct as an institution.
Bolton spoke forcefully of the split between the United Nations and the United States over support for Israel.
On Nov. 10, 1975, the U.N. General Assembly made its "single worst decision," adopting a resolution equating Zionism with racism, he said. That showed that the U.N. "had strayed from the ideals of its founders," he said.
While the resolution was repealed in 1991, bias against Israel remains, he said.
What a long memory the neocons have. Then of course, there are the other reasons for re-making the UN in America's image:
Other continuing problems, Bolton said, include the oil-for-food scandal, which helped empower Saddam Hussein in Iraq; the tendency for U.N. peacekeeping missions to last indefinitely; and the troubling proclivity toward sexual exploitation and abuse "of the very people they're sent to protect" by U.N. peacekeepers.
Oh yes. The oil-for-food scandal that showed the corruption of the whole western industrial/commercial complex, like the weapons supply for all those many years allowed by ....the United States, in whose new image the new world institution will be built when the United Nations is torn down.
What patronising claptrap do you Americans say to us to bring us, the rest of the world, into line:
"This is not something we can pass off as boys will be boys," Bolton said.
Well, shrivel me up into a little ball, the headmaster has spoken. Gettit, all you so-called other world leaders in your tin pot little countries, you effete Europeans, you third world China and Asian bloc, you worthless South Americans?
No, the rest of us will have to respond to the much higher moral and ethical standards of you Americans if we are to have any say in our world. See the latest BBC report of the moral stances you are taking:
Washington has described as "unfair" the trial in Uzbekistan of 15 men convicted on Monday of leading an uprising in the town of Andijan.
The court found the men guilty of trying to oust the government and set up an Islamic state, and jailed them for between 14 and 20 years.
Heh! They had a trial, these Islamic insurg...oh, no it wasn't against you Americans...these Muslim politicians.
So, is the message one that says that you shouldn't bring people to trial if it is going to be unfair but you should leave them for years in prisons like Gitmo? What was unfair? That there was insufficient evidence of the type that the especially excluded CIA interrogators could have obtained to make the trial fair?
I am sure the United Nations reborn in the image of the United States or its replacement will sort it all out for us.
Damn you hypocritical Americans. I am sure you are making valid points to Uzbekistan, but you are the last people on earth to now be in a position to make them. Don't you realise this uncomfortable truth?
And why do I come on DKos accusing you of being these Americans after twelve months of supporting all you Democrats because I love your damn country and recognise these people are not you? Well,it is all very well the Welshmans and the Jeromes writing their diaries on Dkos that recognise that, when John Bolton claims to speak for you, he does not. It gives you false comfort. Few of our countrymen make these distinctions and even fewer of the rest of the world does.
Take pleasure from your polls that say that Bush is now reviled by the majority of Americans. It makes no difference. The Wolfowitzs and the Boltons are still out there doing their damage, unaffected by polls because they are not elected to their positions.
Please my torturing, country invading, chemical weapons using, civilian population killing, wrongfully imprisoning friends on DKos DON'T LET UP UNTIL JOHN BOLTON IS NO LONGER ABLE TO SAY WHAT IT IS THAT YOU BELIEVE!
For a start, by what vote of Congress is the unelected John Bolton saying that it has been decided to destroy the United Nations and replace it if they don't conform to United States wishes?