``The United States is committed to the success of the United Nations, and we view the U.N. as an important component of our diplomacy,'' Bolton said Monday.
That is a firmer statement of support for the world body than conservatives in and out of the Bush administration have sometimes offered, and some Democrats suggested Monday that Bolton hadn't really been converted.
Bolton retains a go-it-alone attitude about U.S. foreign policy that is out of step with Bush's second-term pledge of international cooperation, said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
``My overall assessment is that you have nothing but disdain for the United Nations,'' she said.
``You can dance around it, you can run away from it, you can put perfume on it, but the bottom line is the bottom line,'' Boxer said. ``It's hard for me to know why you'd want to work at an institution that you said didn't even exist.''
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