1.02.2006

"Bolton Plans to Restructure the U.N."

That's the headline of this Washington Post piece.

I just see oh... maybe a couple of little problems:

1) John Bolton is NOT the leader of the U.N. God help us all if he were.

2) John wasn't liked going in, but no less than Britain has complained of how badly he's behaving in the job. They want him out.

3) Considering that the rest of the world would rather have a very bad case of clap than have the U.S. thrusting itself any harder down their throats right now would just seem like a poor time for Bolton to decide unilaterally that the rest of the world has to bend to the will of a nasty little Bushie bureaucrat.

And these problems don't even begin to address the very real problems - diplomacy, cooperation, efficacy and much, much more - afoot here.