A great deal of attention has been paid to the stratagems of John Bolton, the fiercely anti-UN diplomat whom President Bush recently appointed US ambassador to the UN, and rightly so. But what has tended to get lost in these discussions are the malign synergies between a Third World suspicious that so-called humanitarian interventions are only colonialism redux and a unilateralist US administration wedded to the concept of pre-emptive war against enemies that it equates with states that violate human rights.
布什总统不久前任命的美国驻联合国大使，激进的反联合国外交家约翰·博尔顿所提出的战略引起了人们的广泛关注，这种关注也确实恰如其分。但这样的讨论忽略了第三世界怀疑论有害的协同作用：即所谓的人道主义干涉不过是殖民主义的又一次回潮，或者是奉行单边主义的美国政府对被其视作人权破坏国的敌人发起的又一次先发制人的战争。