…but Scorn at U.N.: “The Bush administration is not popular at the United Nations, where it is often perceived as disdainful of diplomacy, and its policies as heedless of the effects on others and single-minded in the willful assertion of American interests. By extension, then, many diplomats say they see Mr. Bolton as a stand-in for the arrogance of the administration itself.” (New York Times )
Actually, I think the only serious debate is between those who think Bolton has been a major player in advancing the cause of US isolation and those who feel he is merely holding his own with the sorry state of global US foreign policy failure he inherited. [Click the link, it is unbelievable…literally.]
