Greg Djerejian is increasingly troubled by the Bolton nomination. It's a long post with the pros and cons as he sees it laid out, that reflects perhaps the mind of a moderate GOP Bush supporter -- one who knows better than most the UN's need for reform. But the emerging pattern of evidence of Bolton's abusiveness to professionals - from intelligence analysts to ambassadors -- whose professional judgment doesn't comport with Bolton's ideology seems to trouble Greg, as it should.

The White House has tried to equate in the American public mind John Bolton with "UN reform." Those of us who actually care about real UN reform need to make clear, our opposition to Bolton is because Bolton would actually hinder UN reform, just as he has obstructed the US policy objective of ridding rogue states of their weapons of mass destruction programs. Indeed, in his ideological zeal, Bolton has actually sought rogue states escalating their WMD programs, rather than be part of efforts to negotiate their abandonment. Two cases in point, Libya and North Korea.

Posted by Laura at April 24, 2005 07:14 PM