Nuts and Bolton

Spectator, The, Mar 19, 2005 by Steyn, Mark

'Increasingly multilateralism is a synonym for an ineffective and unfocused policy involving internationalism of the lowest common denominator. . . . We are prepared to join coalitions of the willing that can bring focus and purpose to addressing the urgent security and other challenges we face.'

The UN is structurally unable to address those challenges. In recent years, for example, I can find only one example of a senior UN figure having the guts to call a member state a 'totalitarian regime'. It was former secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali last autumn, and he was talking about America. John Bolton's sin isn't that he's 'undiplomatic', but that he's correct.