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February 26, 2006

Sex and the UN

Posted by digamma @ 1:00 pm EST

Atrios links to an AP article in which John Bolton blasts the UN as hobbled “by bad management, by sex and corruption". Atrios’s reaction is ” Wuuuuuuuuuuh?", apparently desiring to turn this into a Santorum-esque case where a Republican makes a bizarre comment about sex that betrays some serious psychological issues.

You can answer that “wuuuh” in about five seconds on Google.

I was looking for Cambodia, the country where I was a month ago and for which I have a deep affection. I didn’t know about Haiti, Burundi, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

So Bolton’s statement was, though probably an exaggeration, completely based on reality and not on hysterical Republican fear of sex.

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