John Bolton's first report card

[whometense]

It appears our fears were not unfounded.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10734

Read the whole thing, if you can stand it.

The Arsonist
From our January issue: In his first six months at the UN, John Bolton has offended allies, blocked crucial negotiations, undermined the Secretary of State -- and harmed U.S. interests. We expected bad; we didn’t expect this bad.

By Mark Leon Goldberg

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The Prospect has learned that Bolton’s first staff meeting did little to improve things: He told the roughly 100 people present that he wanted to personally sign off on every cable from the mission to Washington. There can be up to five of these cables sent to Foggy Bottom each day, and though the ambassador technically signs them, in practice previous UN ambassadors would not normally read them all. “He wanted to get in the weeds,” said someone present at that meeting. “It seemed to be his way of scaring people.” (Despite repeated requests, Bolton’s office would not comment for this article.)<...>

[jenndar]

1. What's sad is how completely unsurprising this is. n/t

[Blaukraut]

2. seems to be going according to plan

Bush didn't appoint Bolton to make friends at the UN, that's for sure.