Bolton at the UN

I know, I know, not so important today, but I had to get away from it for a little while. Check out what Bolton's pushing at the UN.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 31 -- John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has voiced firm opposition to U.N. reorganization measures that the Bush administration fears would inhibit U.S. authority to use force and place new legal obligations on countries to intervene where genocide, ethnic cleansing or war crimes were being committed. .......

Bolton also pressed for changes in the U.N. document that would ensure that U.S. or Israeli forces would not be exposed to terrorism charges if they killed or injured civilians during military operations. Bolton wrote that the "scope" of the terrorism provision should be limited to "terrorist actions," not "military activities that are appropriately governed by international humanitarian law." Arab governments have insisted for years that the Israeli army has engaged in "state terrorism" against Palestinian civilians.

So basically, the UN should be used to sanction other countries and justify the use of US force, and then also not be allowed to stand in the way of the unilateral use of US force. This "Bolton plan" would effectively destroy any peacemaking/international law enforcing role that the UN has. You talk about making the UN irrelevant. I guess we know which ten floors of the UN Bolton would go after; the ones which stop world war IV.


Oh, and by the way..... ISRAELI FORCES??????? Just whose ambassador to the UN is Bolton?