Most of the American media are equally stunned [by the appointment of Bolton as the spokesmen of "the international community" are]. The New York Times wondered what Bush's next appointment would be:Ummm ... yup. RTWT and be sure to click thru to Steyn.
"Donald Rumsfeld to negotiate a new set of Geneva conventions? Martha Stewart to run the Securities and Exchange Commission?"
OK, I get the hang of this game. Sending Bolton to be U.N. ambassador is like...putting Sudan and Zimbabwe on the Human Rights Commission. Or letting Saddam's Iraq chair the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. Or sending a bunch of child-sex fiends to man U.N. operations in the Congo. And the Central African Republic. And Sierra Leone, and Burundi, Liberia, Haiti, Kosovo, and pretty much everywhere else.
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Monday, March 21, 2005
The Game
Power Line points out that Steyn has a bead on Bush's new game: