The U.S. and the UN 

The U.S. and the UN

The guests on Josh Marshall's site are very concerned about John Bolton and what the U.S. is doing to international initiatives.

It strikes me again that the U.S. was the leading supporter of both the League of Nations and the United Nations. Why the great disillusionment by Bushies now? I think Americans tended to support these international initiatives (to the extent that they did) not as an alternative to their isolationism, but as a support for it. Maybe we can set up an international agency, fund it, and it will fight wars in hell-holes so we don't have to. 9/11 could be taken as decisive proof that this doesn't work--the UN doesn't protect the U.S. homeland.

The other part of Bushie thinking is neo-con. They were probably always skeptical of the UN--not because they wanted to make sure isolationism was somehow safe, but because they wanted to reserve the right to carry out adventurist wars. In a way the Bush administration is a combination of Sparta and Athens.

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