An editorial in the Wall Street Journal takes a look at the motives of those trying to "Bork" John Bolton. This paragraph was especially telling in regards to the consensus among the left regarding the UN and foreign policy.
This was the consensus that held, or holds, that North Korea and Iran can be bribed away from their nuclear ambitions, that democracy in the Arab world was impossible and probably undesirable, that fighting terrorism merely encourages more terrorism, that countries such as Syria pose no significant threat to U.S. national security, that the U.N. alone confers moral legitimacy on a foreign-policy objective, and that support for Israel explains Islamic hostility to the U.S. Above all, in this view, the job of appointed officials such as Mr. Bolton is to reside benignly in their offices at State while the permanent foreign service bureaucracy goes about applying establishment prescriptions.
It seems that, in the Democratic Party, "benign" bureaucracy is still more important than results.
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