From the Huffington Post:

Just weeks before heads of UN Member States gather in New York to discuss how to revitalize and modernize the United Nations, the U.S. delegation, led by John Bolton, has launched a last-minute effort to change a near finalized document for UN reform. Ambassador Bolton has recommended scrapping more than 400 passages from the 38-page draft prepared for the September summit, a copy of the document obtained by The Huffington Post shows.

The United States is strongly opposing already agreed upon provisions in the document to address global poverty, climate change and provisions that would urge nuclear powers to reduce their current weapons cache.

The current document was the product of nearly a year of intensive negotiations. Its formulation is now in danger of being derailed at a serious cost to the United States and its longstanding support for the United Nations.

Did anyone really expect anything different. This is a man sent to the U.N. to bring it down. Now I am no big fan of the U.N. If Rwanda did not turn me against it, then surely Darfur has. But what is needed at the U.N. is reform, not disruption...

I am sure there are quite a few Conservatives who are just jumping for joy over this news. The sad thing is that when you read some of the Edits Bolton allegedly made, they are demonstrative of the polar opposite of what I think most Americans would want, or expect us to stand for. Read the whole thing.

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