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To: LindyBill who wrote (134401)8/25/2005 9:04:35 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 793796
 
Interesting commentary from Steve Clemons on Bolton's "diplomacy." Clemons is one of two guest bloggers on Josh Marshall's blog this week.

Here's Clemons comment:

(August 25, 2005 -- 02:49 PM EDT)

Recess-appointed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton is doing exactly what his critics expected of him. He is sticking it to the world. . .hard and nasty.

I received this morning a leaked copy of U.S. comments on the draft document for the Millennium Summit in September. I have been informed that these are John Bolton's personal draft modification suggestions that appear on the document.

Here is the document, adobe format, but it is a very large file. (Dial-up readers be careful.)

These suggested revisions are leaps and bounds more offensive, regressive, short-sighted, and dismissive of others than America's "bad guy" role in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

In short, the document does the following:

~ knocks out entirely the Millennium Development Goals

~ continues to undermine collective efforts against climate change

~ knocks out targets and timetables for all goals and objectives

~ guts any efforts toward further disarmament objectives and focuses exclusively on non-proliferation, while both had always been important objectives in the past

~ strikes the section that states that countries will use force only as last resort

~ and oddly, strikes out the need to establish a legal definition of terrorism, which the Bush administration has previously stated is a requirement before proceeding towards a U.N. Convention on Terorrism.

The John Bolton we came to know (and not love) is back.

Condi -- When does the "supervision" promised to Senators Voinovich, Hagel, and Chafee begin?
-- Steve Clemons

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