Move Up the Date For Armageddon

This administration’s foreign policy reminds me of watching someone trying to play chess without being able to think more than one move ahead. Let’s go invade Iraq, a country that not only hasn’t done anything to us, but isn’t even a threat to us, and then we’ll be greeted with cheers and flowers, right? Insurgency? Civil war? Lebanon getting ready to kick out Syria? Hooray – told you we were bringing democracy to the Middle East. Except, then who’s in charge? Hezbollah, you say? Never heard of them.

I must confess, I have sadly underestimated the Bush administration’s sense of humor. Appointing John Bolton ambassador to the United Nations: Boffo! What a laff riot! Hilarious comedy, a delicious romp, great setup for a sitcom.

Bolton is known for being arrogant, humorless, self-righteous and confrontational, and he hates the United Nations. In other words, the perfect diplomat.

Speaking of setups, would the joke be half as good if President Bush hadn’t just returned from a tour of Europe during which he assured our allies he was anxious to improve international cooperation? There, he was promising Europeans old and new that we’d turned a new page, we want nothing more than consultation, cooperation, being buddy-buddy. And then he names Bolton ambassador (oh, ha ha) to the United Nations (ha, ha, ha). Bolton keeps a bronzed grenade in his office to show how proud he is of being called a bomb-thrower.

Bolton himself has said, “I don’t do carrots.” Meaning he’s strictly a stick guy. Intimidation, bullying, threats. The hawk’s hawk, the neo-con’s darling. This is a single-digit salute to the United Nations.

Bolton’s contempt for the United Nations is notorious and could not be clearer. Bolton said: “There is no United Nations. ... When…

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