Note
Just who is holding whom hostage? UN status quo experts are trying to prevent serious reform efforts by the U.S. administration by ramming through a two-year budget in December which is essentially business-as-usual. Ambassador Bolton's efforts to delay the adoption of the long-range budget in the absence of reforms is being cast by the anti-reformers as triggering a crisis in UN operations. But those attempting to use the whole of UN operations as a bulwark against reform are the real hostage-takers.