Associated Press reported today that John Bolton has resigned as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
First, I’d like to congratulate our friends at the Stop Bolton, Citizens for Global Solutions and other groups fighting hard to preserve the United Nations. This is a time to be building on a fixing our international institutions, not dismantling them.
We shouldn’t interpret the resignation of John Bolton in a shift in policy, but one thing is for sure. It will be difficult for President Bush to find someone as intelligent and strategic yet devious and filled with so much misplaced paranoid animosity towards the UN as John Bolton.
Our friends who duked it out at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Nairobi may be more familiar (and frustrated) with US climate negotiator Harlan Watson. But from the long-time accounts at Bolton Watch, John Bolton was just a nuisance he was a threat to the entire international process. On behalf of everyone who cared, I’d like to offer an enthusiasic ‘good riddance to bad rubbish”
Hell yes! Its time for the U.S. to lead by example with dignity. This guy was an embarrassment to the hard working people of America who paid his salary.