>>>Which is why I actually like the author of the article. Knowing that the editor will slap an imprecise qualification in the subcaption ("John Bolton, the former American ambassador to the United Nations" - which is not exactly true), he strategically inserted a preemptive correction somewhere deep inside the text: "Mr Bush's ambassador to the UN".
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>>John Bolton was not the U.S. ambassador to the UN? You must mean something different than I think.
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>He wasn't vetted by Congress, he was actually filibustered against. He was Bush's finger-in-everyone's-eye own envoy, by means of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_appointment.

Oh, I remember the whole thing. The fact remains he did hold that post, regardless of how he got there.

Naming someone as belligerent as him our top diplomat was the perfect statement of the Bush administration's attitude towards diplomacy and other countries.