>>>>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.
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>Oh, I remember the whole thing. The fact remains he did hold that post, regardless of how he got there.
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>Naming someone as belligerent as him our top diplomat was the perfect statement of the Bush administration's attitude towards diplomacy and other countries.
In fairness I think it was more accurately a reflection of the admin's atttitude toward the UN - hardly the same thing as 'diplomacy and other countries.'
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