Bolton's Departure

By Joseph Klein

"We have just lost the services of one of our greatest U.N. ambassadors, sacrificed at the altar of liberal appeasement. Aside from his most virulent opponents in Congress and the mainstream press, the folks who are the happiest about John Bolton’s resignation are the U.N. bureaucrats. They were not used to someone of Bolton’s stature and intellect challenging their entrenched ways. They simply wanted him out of the way.

When asked for his reaction to the news of Bolton’s resignation, Kofi Annan took a condescending swipe at Bolton’s forthright style by saying “that ambassadors understand that to get concessions, they have to make concessions.” Of course, Bolton did compromise when necessary." Read more....