Casey was a great American soldier who was performing his duty as he chose to do. For that, I thank him as should we all. I’m confident that history will show IN THE FUTURE, that Cindy had a period of grieving where she became delusional (by her own admission) and that she was listening to all the wrong people.

She’s getting a pass from me. The fault will lie with those that have constructed this media event.

And they will be called Ultra-Liberal Democrats.

You are right, I should have written claims he wants to change. Most organizations or political groups that are caught ripping people off and that are grossly ineffective lose power. The U.N. does the very same thing and has the balls to ask for more and act like the injured party when someone suggests clipping their wings.

Kevin Peters

Except that they have exactly zero intention of ever doing that. The kleptocrats at the UN are doing just what they want to. To them, there is no problem.

The skewed logic of the U.N. and their leftist supporters never fails to amaze me. Over the last two decades their “peace keeping forces” have failed unless they have been aided by our military or the waring factions have tired of killing each other. In almost every case if one side of the conflict has challenged the UN forces they have folded and allowed the agressive side to achieve all or some of their goals. The oil for food program has showed that they are vunerable to corruption and that their internal control of their own programs are not good enough. Even the remodel of the U.N. remodel has been shown to be a financial goody bag for UN members to enrich themselves and their cronies.Even the number one man has shown that the best way to get influence and contracts at the UN is to make sure his children are taken care of.

And what is the U.N. answer to requests for reform? Give us more money, more control, even the ability to tax it’s member nations. And the tax plan punishes the more productive nations and allows the unproductive and corrupt countries to enrich themselves without reforming their broken governing systems. They are like a junkie who wants to change but his life but does not include quiting his drug use in the game plan. The denial at that organization is totall and all the MSM can say is Bolton is ruining all of their plans. Thank God he is! There was no reform in the reform plan, there is just a promise to continue their crimes on a larger scale.

Kevin Peters

America’s controversial new ambassador to the United Nations is threatening to torpedo 12 months of negotiations on the reform of the organisation.

We can only hope.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110007150.

Hopefully we are in for a hot autumn!

JD in Oslo

Excuse me?

We’ve been discussing it for three years already and had an election last November which decided the issue.

Losers. All they want is a do-over.

He doesn’t have any need for them and they no longer (if they ever did) ‘speak for the American people’. What they say, write or do is of little moment when the President’s party holds the legislature and the President holds the party purse strings (and he does).

The news is that Bolton (how’d that thumb in the eye feel Dems?) delivered a rather pointed ‘Dear Kofi’ message today.

Notice has been served and Sen. Coleman needs to either move his bill or get behind Rep. Hyde’s bill. There will be no substantive change at the UN until we cut our funding.

These folks live in an alternate reality that I don’t inhabit. They may actually believe all this stuff. What looks like desperation may just be the continuing divergence of these alternate streams of reality. I suspect that even if Iraq becomes prosperous, peaceful, and free at some future time there will histories and articles chronicaling the continuing Iraqi quagmire and the utter failure of Bush’s Iraq idiocy. *Sigh*.