[Peace-discuss] Bolton and the UN.

[Morton K.Brussel]

Exerpt from entertaining, somewhat informative in Foreign Policy in 
Focus

http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2005/0503bolton.html

article by Ian Williams. An admission by Bolton which is not all wrong:

As Bolton told Insight magazine, "It is a big mistake for us to grant 
any validity to international law even when it may seem in our 
short-term interest to do so--because, over the long term, the goal of 
those who think that international law really means anything are those 
who want to constrict the United States. We ought to be concerned about 
this so-called right of humanitarian intervention--a right of 
intervention that is just a gleam in one beholder's eye but looks like 
flat-out aggression to somebody else. What we did was bomb innocent 
civilian Serbs into the ground in order that the Albanians can come 
back and ethnically cleanse the Serbs' relatives out of what's left of 
Kosovo." He wriggled a lot over that when it was brought up in his last 
confirmation hearings, but he certainly never explicitly retracted it.
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