bolton+china

we say we want to reform the UN, but the US and china will oppose expanding the security council.

africa and latin america have no permanent members, and asia—the most populous continent—has only china. 3 of the 5 are in europe. (i know. russia's partly in asia. but the power's in the european part.)

if i were a better, i'd bet a worldwide poll would show a majority think UN reform has to include—at the very least—permanent status for brazil or india or south africa. a few other countries would get a lot of votes too, japan among them.

but that's not what the white house wants. our version of reform preserves our power to get away with whatever we want to do and keeps the club with that power as small as possible.

enter john bolton. who better to fight for the bush world order agenda than a man who passionately believes the UN is essentially a fiction whose building has 10 floors too many?

i hear he got booed on the UN sidewalk the other day.

heh heh.