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To: Road Walker who wrote (222891)	3/8/2005 3:34:30 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586205

A major part of the problem with Bush is that the media tries to make his policies rational [see below]. Appointing this Bolton guy to the UN makes little sense in light of the current political environment. Nonetheless, they are working real hard to spin it into a positive. I imagine this was how Chamberlain reacted to Hitler's moves. It seems no one ever suspects that a leader may be insane or badly screwed up. *************************************************** Signal behind Bolton's nomination to UN post** As a conservative, he will push to reform the body, but he'll have to be conciliatory, too. By Howard LaFranchi \| Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON – President Bush's nomination of John Bolton, the tough-talking neoconservative arms-proliferation expert, as US ambassador to the United Nations is raising a lot of eyebrows and questions at a time when it was thought the administration was out to set a more diplomatic tone. Certainly on the surface, the tapping of Mr. Bolton - who as undersecretary for arms control gleefully signed the letter informing the UN of the US withdrawal from the International Criminal Court - seems at odds with the tone of multilateralism and reconciliation that Bush promoted in his week-long trip to Europe last month. But the key to understanding such a controversial nomination may lie more in Bush's own calls for the world body to become a more effective global forum - in particular by enforcing its own decisions - than in speculation that the administration wants to antagonize what it sees as a stodgy talk shop. "If he's being sent to New York to throw rocks, it won't do a lot of good," says Michael Doyle, a professor of law and international affairs at Columbia University in New York. "On the other hand, if he's being sent to provide leadership for reform, that's a different story. He's the kind of person who could bring on board many skeptics in the Congress." continued............. csmonitor.com