This column shows why.

Mark Steyn dissects the UN like an expert forensic pathologist working over the victim of a suicide: cutting calmly and with a minimum of fuss, he smoothly separates each organ from its neighbours, seeking out every self-inflicted lesion.

Writing about the appointment of John Bolton to the US Ambassador seat at the United Nations (appointed by Chimpy Bushitler himself!!), Steyn makes it clear that his foes on the left (like my new friend Greg) are pretty much getting what they–and the world–deserve.

Sending John Bolton to be UN ambassador is like …putting Sudan and Zimbabwe on the Human Rights Commission. Or letting Saddam’s Iraq chair the UN conference on disarmament. Or sending a bunch of child-sex fiends to man UN operations in the Congo. And the Central African Republic. And Sierra Leone, and Burundi, Liberia, Haiti, Kosovo, and pretty much everywhere else. All of which happened without the UN fetishists running around shrieking hysterically. Why should America be the only country not to enjoy an uproarious joke at the UN’s expense?

In recent years, I’ve had the pleasure of watching John Bolton in action on a couple of occasions at semi-private gatherings comprised mainly of — what’s the word? — foreigners. They were remarkable performances. [...] In a roomful of Euro-grandees, he was perfectly relaxed, a genial fellow with a rather Mitteleuropean moustache, but he thwacked every ball they served back down their gullets with amazing precision. He was the absolute antithesis of Schmoozer Bill and Pandering Eason: he seemed to relish their hostility. At one event, a startled British cabinet minister said to me afterwards, ‘He doesn’t mean all that, does he?’

But he does.

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Reporting on the Bolton appointment in the Financial Times James Harding wrote, ‘Mr Bush is eager to re-engage with allies, but is unapologetic about the Iraq war, the policy of pre-emption and the transformational agenda.’ ‘Unapologetic’? What exactly should he be apologising for? The toppling of Saddam? The Iraq election? The first green shoots of liberty in the desert of Middle Eastern ‘stability’? When you unpick the assumptions behind James Harding’s sentence, Mr Bush’s principal offence is that he remains ‘unapologetic’ about doing all this without the blessing of the formal transnational decision-making process.

And my favourite line:

The UN is structurally unable to address those challenges. In recent years, for example, I can find only one example of a senior UN figure having the guts to call a member state a ‘totalitarian regime’. It was former secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali last autumn, and he was talking about America. John Bolton’s sin isn’t that he’s ‘undiplomatic’, but that he’s correct.

The Last Amazon can look to music to see divine inspiration. In truth, I find my inspiration in prose, thank you very much.