Reports the NYT’s Douglas Jehl, George Voinovich, the Ohio Republican senator who famously delayed a committee vote on John Bolton as U.N. envoy, has circulated “a letter urging colleagues to vote against Mr. Bolton when his name reaches the Senate floor, possibly this week.”

James Goldsborough strenuously disagrees: “The Bush Administration deserves to have Bolton as a symbol of its foreign policy.” …
Au contrare, writes James O. Goldsborough for the Voice of San Diego:

Bolton is so dramatically unqualified to serve in this job — even Republicans are holding their noses — that his confirmation is in doubt, and that’s too bad. Seldom has an ambassadorial nomination so clearly reflected an administration as this one. The Bush Administration deserves to have Bolton as a symbol of its foreign policy.


… Such an appointment
doesn’t reflect on Bush, it reflects on all of us, say
the protesters. As long as we believe in the
importance of the United Nations — and opinion polls
show it still stands high in American eyes — we
should have someone there who believes in it.


I don’t think so. I believe the standing of America
under Bush has sunk so low that Bolton should be the
symbol of how far we have sunk. Because Bush has shown
total contempt for the United Nations and the
collective effort led by Americans since World War II
to outlaw wars of aggression through the United
Nations, it is fitting that our U.N. representative
reflect that contempt. After what Bush has done to
weaken the United Nations, it would be a sham to send
someone there who actually respected it.

The more we allow Bush to heighten the contradictions
of his own policy, the sooner we will have the whole
bad dream swept away. …

– Goldsborough’s column was sent to me by Carol G. in San Diego.

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