Bolton and the UN

Mark Steyn has a great piece in the Sun-Times on the appointment of John Bolton as the new Ambassador to the UN:

But he does do schtick. I happen to agree with all the above statements, but I can see why the international community might be minded to throw its hands up and shriek, "Quel horreur!" It's not just the rest of the world. Most of the American media are equally stunned. The New York Times wondered what Bush's next appointment would be:

"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.

All of which happened without the U.N. fetishists running around shrieking hysterically. Why should America be the only country not to enjoy an uproarious joke at the U.N.'s expense?

The UN is supported largely by American dollars and has done nothing but berate anything we do. We give the majority of the money so we should have a majority say.

Let's do a little analogy; say you invest $100,000 into a corporation and two other partners invest $50K each. Should they have an equal say in the operation of that corporation?

Uh, sorry about the corporate analogy, capitalism is bad in the eyes of Liberals. OK, how about this; you put up $100 bucks for an ounce of weed and two friends put up $50 each. Should the bud be split up evenly or will you get half and the other two stoners get 1/4?

If you answered affirmative to the latter, then you understand how the Bush administration feels with regard to the UN. If you answered yes to the former then you're getting cheated out of some fine sinsemilla and probably shouldn't get involved in the debate.