Mover Mike

From ISN, US demands on UN draft prompt criticism, John Bolton has issued a letter to the UN delegates, that has swiftly brought criticism from the Democrats.

At issue was the 38-page draft being readied for the 14 September conference, prepared under Jean Ping of Gabon, the president of the UN General Assembly. The US wants more than 400 pages of this document scrapped though it was cobbled together by international consensus after nearly a year of negotiations.

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Most of the US objections to the draft are over topics Washington has traditionally taken issue with: development aid, the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming, the International Criminal Court (ICC), and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The Ping draft was also considering other issues such as a Human Rights Commission with more teeth, a universal definition of terrorism, and power to the international community to intervene in nations with genocide or ethnic cleaning is occurring. The US has traditionally backed these changes.

The Dems dumped on Bolton, saying it didn't take long for his corrosive presence to be felt, then some women's groups called our tactics "tiring", so they must not have originated with Bolton. Business as usual!