I have produced in full a news item from the British newspaper Time Online, written by Tim Reid, on what John Bolton, US Ambassador to the United Nations had said through the years. You judge whether such a man ought to be ambassador to anywhere?
John Bolton has left little doubt in his 30-year career about his disdain for the UN and the importance he attaches instead to the values and strength of the US.
In 1994, during a convention in New York, Mr Bolton, now 56, declared: “There is no such thing as the United Nations.
“There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world, and that’s the United States, when it suits our interests and who can get others to go along.”
He also said: “The only question for the United States is what’s in our national interest. And if you don’t like that, I’m sorry, but that is a fact.”
In 2000 he told an interviewer: “If I were redoing the Security Council today, I’d have one permanent member because that’s the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world.”
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