Bolton’s Perspective
U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on the United Nations:
[The U.N.] has got to be a place to solve problems that need solving, rather than a place where problems go, never to emerge.
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. . . .
Isn’t great to have an ambassador to the U.N. who believes the U.N. doesn’t qualify as the only international instrument to advance our interests? Moreover, he describes the current U.N. mindset as a “culture of inaction.” Blunt and true. Hopefully Bolton can lower the number of U.N. workers it takes to turn a light bulb during the next two years.
Best of all, he has his priorities straight:
My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
Finally, someone at the U.N. who puts United States interests’–not the international community–first.