Steyn On Bolton

Mark Steyn on the Bolton nomination:

John Bolton's sin is to have spoken the truth about the international system rather than the myths to which photo-oppers like the Canadian prime minister defer. As a consequence, he's being treated like a container of Western aid being processed by Indonesian customs. Customs Inspector Joe Biden and Junior Clerk Voinovich spent two months trying to come up with reasons why Bolton's paperwork is inadequate and demanding to know why he hasn't filled out his RU1-2. An RU1-2 is the official international bureaucrat's form reassuring the global community that he'll continue to peddle all the polite fictions, no matter how self-evidently risible they are. John Bolton isn't one, too. That's why we need him.

The thing that puzzles me the most about the people who think we must defer to the UN, and by no means insult its (risible) affect on the world; do they not see what a joke the organization has always been? Do they not read history - Dag Hammarskjold's effect on, among other things, the Congo crisis was on balance worse than useless, among many other UN disasters.

What is the actual problem with Bolton?

Besides the whole "acceptable to conservatives" thing?

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