If there are any doubts as to whether Bolton is the right man for this job, consider the recent hostilities in Lebanon.
When Hezbollah terrorists started launching missiles at the people of Israel without provocation, and Israel took necessary actions to defend itself — the so-called United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Jan Egeland, self-righteously pontificated that Israel’s defensive actions were a “violation of humanitarian law.”
And the so-called United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour actually insinuated that Israel — and by inference those who support Israel (namely George Bush and the United States) — should be tried for war crimes when she addressed the “personal criminal responsibility of those involved, particularly those in a position of command and control.”
Bolton immediately called Arbour on the carpet, saying, “[P]rosecutors are not supposed to threaten people in public based on press reports… I would just say as one lawyer to another to Mrs. Arbour that she should consider her professional ethics and responsibilities very carefully here.”
Bolton also laid it on the line and said there was NO “moral equivalence” between those killed in Lebanon and in Israel. He immediately labeled the actions of Hezbollah — exactly what they were — “malicious terrorist acts” and the deaths of civilians in Lebanon “sad and highly unfortunate consequences of [Israeli] self-defense.”
THANK GOD for John Bolton! That kind of straight-talk is EXACTLY WHY America NEEDS John Bolton in the United Nations!
That’s also why Senate liberals like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Chris Dodd will move heaven and earth this upcoming week to put Bolton out of a job!
Opposition to the Boton nomination yet again demonstrates why the American Left cannot be trusted with our national security and why millions of Americans believe that they are invested in our defeat in Iraq and in the larger overall War on Global Jihadism. Once again the American Political Left is showing the world where they stand and who they stand with. “By their fruits, you shall know them.”
The only tough US Ambasador to serve in the feckless and corrupt UN in my lifetime and the “hurry up and lose” Libs are going to fillibuster his nomination. That’s all you have to know about the American political left in our country. Is it me or doesn’t it seem as though we are fighting a two pronged war? One against the Islamists worldwide and the domestic insurgent liberals here at home, constatnly coddling dictators like Chavez and Castro, divulging our terror surveillence secrets to the enemy, referring to our military as “rapists” and “Nazis” etc…and comparing our commander and chief to Hitler as often as possible. And now they want to castrate US representation at the most corrupt world body- the UN -at a time when we need a tough representative like Bolton most. You know he must be effective if the libs are fillibustering his nomination.
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