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> THE TIMES blast of cold reality. Ads by Google VrilE SUNDAY TIMES Bolton's real sin is to see the UN for what it is: an assembly of representatives of all world governments Bush on Cuba -n»: TIM r.s AND — some of which are democratic, some autocratic, Stories You Won't THE SUNDAY TIMES and some of which are outright kleptomaniac, Find Elsewhere. LLECTRONiC PAPER News Service For genocidal dictators. Professionals www.uspoliticstoday.com This body can sometimes be effective in limited ways, but more often it defends the international status quo and sustains corruption. Foreign Policy Bolton's deeper sin is to believe that democracy Magazine matters, that democratic regimes are more easily Get a dealt with than non-democratic regimes and that Complimentary Issue of Foreign institutions — such as the UN — that make no Policy & a Free distinction between them have a serious credibility problem. Gift! www.foreignpolicy.com

More than a decade ago Bolton blurted out the brutal truth: "There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is an international community that occasionally Bush, can be led by the only real power left in the world President and that is the United States, when it suits our Another 4 years! Buy President Bush interest and we can get others to go along." t-shirts, stickers, & more. Does that mean no international co-operation? CafePress.com Hardly. Bolton has spent the past four years trying hard to get the International Atomic Energy Agency to get its act together and presiding over the more effective proliferation security initiative, which tries to stop the smuggling of dangerous weapons on the Bush Find Low Prices on high seas. . Compare Offers It remains true that Bolton's visceral suspicion of the from UK Retailers. UN is not what we usually think of as diplomacy. But www.shopgenie.co.uk the post of UN ambassador has long been a job in which ferocious critics of the UN have found their niche. Remember Jeane Kirkpatrick, President Reagan's ambassador, or, more pertinently, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late Democratic senator? When the UN passed its infamous "Zionism is " resolution, Moynihan diplomatically stated, "This is a lie." When Idi Amin addressed the organisation and was granted the same respect and status as a democratic leader, Moynihan called him a "racist murderer". Somehow the UN and world diplomacy survived this rare outburst of truth.

At a time when the UN needs some tough love, after appalling scandals and impotence, Bolton is not an inexplicable choice, as Kerry stated. He is a potentially inspired one.

Whatever some European hysterics believe, it is not a sign of renewed Bush administration go-it-alone- ism. In the past couple of weeks the president has signalled a willingness to let the Europeans take the lead with and in coaxing the Shi'ite Hezbollah into Lebanese politics. What more do they want? If you look at the broad composition of Bush's second- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1522698,00.html 15/03/2005 Comment: Andrew Sullivan: A terrifying envoy for the UN to handle: he tells the truth - Sunday Time... of 3

term cabinet you see something rather close to his first-term cabinet with a subtle but important adjustment.

The first term had a blend of realists and neocons. The same with the second term — with the realists more prominent. The State Department has a more realist cast. Douglas Feith, a major neocon, is quitting the Pentagon.

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