Bolton on the UN & International Law: Not So Needed, After all
Less Shocking: Former UN Ambassador John Bolton favors US unilateralism/bilateralism over international organizations.
More Shocking: His swipe at international law.
From Yale Daily News’ report on Bolton’s Thursday Yale Law School visit:
“There’s only one country that’s going to stop nuclear proliferation and the threats presented by Iran and North Korea, and that’s the United States,” he concluded. “And that’s the cold, hard truth about international organizations.”
Bolton served as U.N. ambassador under a recess appointment beginning in August 2005. His nomination to the post in 2006 was never approved by the Senate.
Bolton described what he sees as the current challenges in American non-proliferation policy and discussed the United States’ best options in addressing nuclear threats — hardly bothering to veil his disdain for international law and institutions.
“When I was here, I didn’t take any courses at all on international law,” he said, “and frankly I don’t think I missed a thing.”
The paradigm for stemming proliferation, Bolton said, is Libya’s voluntary disarmament in 2003 under American and British pressure — without the help of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Bolton is the face of American arrogance and contempt towards multilateralism, that has resulted in world wide respect towards America hitting a rock bottom. The way once mighty Roman empire does not exist any more, America and the Americans are showing all the economic and strategic symptoms of their downward journey towards a terminal decline !!
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