Today I asked John Bolton a question.
I went to see him at a luncheon at the 20th floor rooftop mansion hall at the St. Regis Hotel in Manhattan. As a member of a group called the Foreign Policy Association, which is a business friendly organization that I charecterize as the poor mans Council of Foreign Relations, I was allowed to break bread with this epitome of the Bush administration.

I kind of wanted to see this type of person in person - and he did not disappoint. He started a little timidly, but as he ripped into the what he characterized as a culture of do-nothing at the UN, his passion grew, as he criticized them for not being harsher on Syria, for not being friendlier to Israel, for doing nothing on Iraq, for saying nice things about Cuba, and on and on. His big claim to fame is that he once had something to do with a resolution that rescinded the UN's resolution against Zionism, and of course that's what he spoke about first. His self-promotion at the expense of the world's internationalist organization speaks volumes to how our current leaders feel about anything not American. Like zippo.

You know, I'm in the mailing business, and I actually have some idea of how much mail the post office is required to deliver each day - a staggering amount. However, they are never commended for delivering most of them, you only hear about the relatively miniscule amount that get lost in the system. Somebody who hates the Post Office will focus on those few, and ignore everything else they do. Substitute UN for PO and that's Bolton, and he is every American's (well US American) representative to that body.

I was recognized in the question and answer session, and so I got to ask a question. I asked whether he thought that the UN deserves any credit at all for the fact that we haven't had to endure a World War Three.

He said no, it was the US that deserved all the credit. He did say that a couple times the UN did what we wanted to so it served at least some purpose.