What reform do we seek in the UN?

[spindoctor]

Bolton will, according to the Administration, be a strong voice for reform in the UN.

I searched and searched but was unable to find any reference of what kind of reform it is they want. Do they have a "plan" a la Social Security?

We all know how Bolton feels about the UN. Is that maybe the reform they seek? A downsized version even more impotent than today's?

In my personal opinion, the first step in UN reform is to revoke the veto rights of the permanent council members.

[GarKeeper]

1. Kick it out of the US

Bolton's job is to drive the UN out of NY and into Canada or Africa or somewhere else.

[DURHAM D]

6. Does some Bush Pioneer want that land on the isle of

Manhattan?

[jim3775]

2. Knocking the top 10 floors off the building according to Bolton. n/t

[BuyingThyme]

3. The U.S. just can't have the U.N. going around being

right all the time. Particularly on matters of life and death.

Michal Bolton is very upset that the U.N. tried to save so many innocent Americans and Iraqis.

Less Hans Blix, and more Condi!

[Just Me]

4. Absolute power, of course, for the corporacrats.

It's all about money. They'll seek to destroy those who either have less money or who refuse to cooperate with global corporatocracy. They'll never give up their own power to veto 'cause,...they are dictators.

[spooked911]

5. I honestly have no problem with the UN. I could care less if they reform.

I'm much much more interested in reforming this government we have.

[DemonFighterLives]

7. Only reform needed is some way to control Americas Imperial notions

There is no way that Bollo will help with that.

[applegrove]

8. I'm guessing they want corporate ties to all interventions. And aid

tied to agreements where corporations can sue if something gets nationalized. You know - to put nations in a straight-jacket where they cannot afford anything nationalized. Like health care.

I'm not looking forward to the bold new vision. I think I will puke if Bolton gets confirmed. Nobody should have to work with a harasser who intimidates and blows up when his grandiose plans get foiled by somebody minding their own business and doing their job. Perhaps they really do plan on destroying the UN by putting that poison pill in there.

[johnaries]

9. They want us out of the UN.

The UN keeps criticizing our "humanatarian efforts to spread democracy" by calling them illegal wars.

PNAC and the neo-cons want to invade whoever they want whenever they want.

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
...In serving as world "constable," the PNAC report went on, no other countervailing forces will be permitted to get in the way. Such actions "demand American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations,"

See, I'm not kidding.

[punpirate]

10. This might fill in some blanks...

... for you:

http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/analysis.htm

[spindoctor]

12. I know the usual and evident complaints...

I'd like to know what specific reforms Mr. Bolton is supposed to voice, since this seems to be the argument in favor of his appointment.

[punpirate]

14. I think Bolton will be pushing for...

... the usual (as that GPF article outlines), and anything else they think they can force through. Downsizing, certainly, making sure that the neo-cons have the run of the institution, etc., but in terms of a published plan, no. That's not the way the Bushies work.

If you want to know what that plan will look like, and what the administration intends for Bolton, you have to look not to the White House, but to their bosses--Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, the Hoover Institution. Look at their policy papers on UN reform, and you'll have a pretty good outline of what will happen.

Cheers.

[Misskittycat]

11. Who are we to dictate how the UN should be reformed?

The rest of the world will hate the US even more for this unilateralist, "my way or the highway" approach.

[proud patriot]

13. I believe bolton's plan is to get rid of a few floors

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