At midnight all the agents

[Frank Newgent]

At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do

Bob Dylan

Seemed a good lead-in to this story...

President Bush on Monday nominated John Bolton, a blunt long-time critic of the United Nations, to be U.S. ambassador to the world body in a move that raised doubts about Bush's new emphasis on diplomacy.

The decision surprised many U.N. diplomats and upset Democrats in Congress, who denounced the choice as divisive and capable of jeopardizing Bush's attempts this year to repair diplomatic ties frayed in his first term over the Iraq war.

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"The (U.N.) Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories. If it lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference," Bolton said in a 1994 panel discussion sponsored by the World Federalist Association.

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Bolton, who keeps a model hand grenade conspicuously on a table in his office, stressed what he called "his support for effective multilateral diplomacy" when he appeared with Rice for the nomination announcement.



http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1000921&tw=wn_wire_story

In the same vein I have a suggestion for a new head of the FCC.

 

[Frank Newgent]

"It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so -- because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrict the United States."

John Bolton 2001


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/16/bolton/index.html

Too bad David Koresh died. Bush could have made him head of the ATF.

 

[Frank Newgent]

"We do not support measures that prohibit civilian possession of small arms."

Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons July 9, 2001


http://www.un.int/usa/01_104.htm

Michael Jackson, Secretary of Health and Human Services...