U.N. Faces New Political Threats From U.S.

"John Bolton, the abrasive U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who has been dubbed by one New York newspaper as "a human wrecking ball", is living up to every critic's gloomy expectations."

"Last week, he threatened U.N. member states, specifically the 132 developing nations, that if they don't play ball with the United States, Washington may look elsewhere to settle international problems."

"It is obvious," Jim Paul of the New York-based Global Policy Forum told IPS, "that Washington has once again threatened the United Nations with its usual warning: 'Do what we say, or we will send you into oblivion"'. He said Bolton's message is clear, "If you don't, we will wreck you."

Not that I care that much for the U.N., but I can't help wonder just how long it's going to take to repair all the damage to our standing in the world, after this administration finally leaves office. Whether Republican or Democrat, the next administration is going to have a lot of work to do.

It's as if these people running things now have absolutely no sense of history, otherwise they'd realize that no country/kingdom/empire has ever lasted forever, and when they began to fall, they all paid a high price for pissing everyone off, in their rise to conquest.