The Problem with Bolton

“If it (United Nations) lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”

“While he (North Korea’s leader) lives like royalty in Pyongyang, he keeps hundreds of thousands of his people locked in prison camps with millions more mired in abject poverty. For many in North Korea, life is a hellish nightmare.”

“I don’t do carrots.”

John Bolton, the President’s nominee to be ambassador to the United States suffers from a rare affliction in our modern times. He speaks the truth and he’s not afraid, timid or remorseful about it. The truth is such a rare commodity in our political world that when we hear “it” we are stunned into a kind of silent horror as our minds grapple with the unexpected sequence of words and try to make sense of them.

John Bolton is out of step with the times and therefore he is bound to draw a lot of negative attention especially from our left leaning press and a lot of our politicians. Mr. Bolton does not try to curry favor or be politically correct or call a spade an ace. He looks out there in the world, sees reality and responds truthfully. But isn’t that what living is about? At every minute of the day a person needs to look at reality, ergo, the truth and make decisions. These decisions can be life threatening. After all what is truth? Truth is the recognition of reality and man recognizes reality by use of his reason. Therefore, what good is it for man to possess reason if he refuses to use it honestly?

The people attacking Mr. Bolton cry shame on him! They would prefer he try to change reality into fantasy and make believe that the UN is an institution that is doing a good job. They prefer the charade that UN members are all equally good and moral ambassadors from freedom loving nations, such as Cuba, Sudan, Iran and North Korea.

Remember the naked emperor who thought he was wearing glorious clothing and his subjects who gasped when a little boy dared reveal the truth according to what his eyes were telling him? That little boy is John Bolton, the emperor is the United Nations and the Emperor’s cheering subjects all who defend the UN as a useful institution. The truth needs to be spoken out loud and John Bolton is the man with cojones to do it.