When Bush failed to get John Bolton confirmed as UN Ambassador and sent him anyway as the beneficiary of an unprecedented recess appointment last August, it was predicted that Bolton would not be a good appointment to that position. The facts have shown that he has failed to live up to even that low expectation.
Bolton has tied up the UN in unnecessary and unproductive conflict over the budget, hogtied his own staff so that they cannot function effectively, provided a leak to British papers that submarined sensitive negotiations that the Secretary of State, Condi Rice, was conducting, And essentially failed to accomplish anything on his own rather outrageous agenda while preventing much of the UN from accomplishing much around him. Expectations for his tenure were very low, and he has failed to even achieve them.
Did I mention that Bolton is a Dick Cheney protege?
See the story at The American Prospect.
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