The Chicago Tribune on John Bolton’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Chicago Tribune, on John Bolton’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: Since the start of his second term, President Bush has sent repeated messages that
The Chicago Tribune on John Bolton’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
Chicago Tribune, on John Bolton’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations:
Since the start of his second term, President Bush has sent repeated messages that when he talks about aggressively spreading freedom and democracy, he means what he says. This week’s reiteration comes via the president’s nomination of serial truth-teller John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
If the Senate confirms the appointment, Bush will have aimed a tidal wave of energy and candor at the snoozy UN complex on New York City’s East River. This promises to be a rude awakening for a body too often consumed by such weighty issues as where in Manhattan diplomats can park free, and who’ll be air-kissing whom at tonight’s reception. …
For too long, the UN has been reluctant to offend powerful exploiters in its midst. In Darfur, for example, the determination of China to buy Sudanese oil and of Russia to sell Sudan weapons has blocked any real effort to halt mass murder.
UN delegates need to hear more confrontational talk about the organization’s failings and also about nuclear proliferation, an area in which Bolton is expert. And if a tidal wave on the East River breaks some cobwebbed windows, good.
The Cincinnati Enquirer on protecting judges.
A defendant in Atlanta wrests a gun from a deputy and kills a judge in his courtroom. A disappointed litigant murders the husband and mother of a judge in Chicago and has a list of other judicial targets when he kills himself as police approach. A disturbed woman sends threatening letters to a federal judge in Cincinnati. These recent stories from America’s courtrooms are just a fraction of the risks our judges face daily.
These high-profile cases also highlight the need for ever more vigilant security and a very small tolerance for those who attack all of us by attacking the judicial system. …
Protecting judges, particularly on the federal level, poses many challenges, not the least of which is cost. But against the backdrop of these recent tragedies, now is the time to reassess the security of our courts and those who dispense justice within them.
- From the Associated Press
