Jesse Helms must be proud of President Bush today. A few years ago, Helms called John Bolton "the kind of man with whom I would want to stand at the gates of Armageddon.""There’s no such thing as the United Nations. [...] If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference." - John Bolton, 1994[...]
"If I were doing the Security Council today, I’d have one permanent member because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world… [and that member would be] the United States." - John Bolton, NPR, Talk of the Nation, 6/6/00
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"We’re going ahead. If you want to come along, come along. We hope you will. But be advised, we’re going ahead on our own…I believe that approach is most likely to produce a larger coalition, because I think, quite frankly, a lot of the members of the old coalition are looking for that kind of American leadership. And a firm and decisive stand by the United States, paradoxical though it may sound, will actually induce more countries to come along." - John Bolton, NPR, 1/29/98
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"I believe…our foreign policy should support American interests. Let the rest of the world support the rest of the world’s interests." - John Bolton, The O’Reilly Factor, 3/24/99
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And when he was given permission to sign the letter to the U.N. that stated Washington was renouncing the Rome Treaty creating the International Criminal Court, he described it as "the happiest moment of my government service." [USA Today, 1/18/00]
If I were looking for a candidate who most closely fit the rest of this administration's ironicly outrageous appointments, I don't imagine I could have found a better one.
John Bolton, US Ambassador to the UN
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