watchingamerica.com: Bolton, 'the Undesirable One'

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Bolton, 'the Undesirable One'
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde
August 2, 2005

A journalist with the news agency DPA said that yesterday’s White House ceremony was less like an appointment as it was a funeral. George Bush, Condoleezza Rice and John Bolton were so tense, that their habitual stone faces showed a few stress lines. Even so, since President Bush does so whenever he can, he limited himself to issuing an order: "Bolton will provide clear American leadership. I will insist upon results."

The opposition in the U.S. Senate and almost the entire rest of the world denounced the nomination of the ex-undersecretary of State as new United States ambassador to the United Nations. What concerns them is Bolton’s stubborn defense, in every forum, of extreme ultraconservative ideas about some kind of approaching ultimate destiny. It’s hard to imagine an individual with a history as undesirable as that of Bolton - a man of the type that is quite rightly called a hard-conservative, who feels that his beliefs are better than anyone else’s. Except for one: the belief in the salvation of the world (its world: the one that they impose on all others) which is the particular responsibility of the clan that governs from the White House.

The best credentials that Bolton has are the very criticisms that have been raised over his nomination. Namely, his dreadful opposition to multilateralism and his hatred toward Cuba, about which he has blatantly lied more than once, accusing the island of producing biological weapons.

If his lies had led to a military intervention in this country , we would probably be witnessing his nomination for something like the vice presidency of the empire, instead of his designation to a diplomatic post.

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