Thursday, January 13, 2005

Bush and Bolton

In an editorial in the NY Sun:
If personnel is policy, one man to watch as Mr. Bush forms his second term administration is John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control. As the most prominent Bush loyalist and conservative voice at Foggy Bottom, his fate in the current reshuffle of senior administration posts will be tracked most keenly by friend and foe alike. ...

If he is fired or, at best, shifted sideways, it will be taken as a signal in Tehran and elsewhere that it's business as usual. They will conclude that the pseudopragmatists of the American foreign-policy establishment are in the ascendant and that the so-called true believers in the "Bush revolution" have had their day. If the administration cannot reward someone like Mr. Bolton, what signal does that send out inside the Beltway? more
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