Forever Isn't Long Enough...

... For Mr John Bolton, the Administration's choice for UN Ambassador, to compile a list of poor behaviours and devious means for political purposes. In other words, they just keep piling up...

More damaging accusations are emerging against John Bolton just two days before the senate foreign relations committee is due to vote on his nomination to be the next US ambassador to the UN.

According to the New York Times, Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state, tried two years ago to muzzle Bolton, who was then undersecretary of state, because of the problems he was causing the state department by speaking out of turn.

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In one instance, the paper says, Bolton created waves because of "his moves and gyrations" aimed at preventing Mohamed ElBaradei from being reappointed as the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN's nuclear monitoring body.

The article also cites Lawrence Wilkerson, a longtime aide to the former secretary of state Colin Powell, on Bolton. Wilkerson has told the senate foreign relations that other high-level state department officials would often come to him with complaints. When he asked what the problem was, the answer was invariably "Bolton".

All the information that has emerged indicates that Bolton is a loose cannon, not just blasting away at North Koreans, Syrians, Iranians and Cubans, but also at Americans who dare to cross him.

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Flippancy aside, one of the most serious charges levelled against Bolton is that through his intemperate rhetoric he undermined the 1994 deal between the US and North Korea, under which Pyongyang agreed to swap nuclear reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium for fuel oil deliveries until less dangerous light water reactors were built.

But of course, the Bush administration must take ultimate responsibility for sending Bolton to South Korea and Japan in 2002, when the fate of the so-called agreed framework was delicately balanced.

Hm. Anybody else wonder how many times the Administration has taken responsibility for anything? Not likely...

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UPDATE
Extracted from one of Jiggavegas' comments in our exceptionally lengthy comment's thread:
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