Well, at least, as Nixon might have put it, we won't have Lincoln Chafee to kick us around any more.  But to turn down John Bolton!  What can he have been thinking?  To deny appointment to an advocate for American policy as effective as John Bolton, well, the word betrayal comes to mind.  Why doesn't Chaffee like Bolton?  No answer.  No reasons.  Because there aren't any. Many of us harbor substantial doubts as to the efficacy of the UN, but Bolton at least got it to produce resolutions against North Korea and Iran, no small achievements given the cynicism and double dealing endemic to it.  His pre-UN role in establishing the Proliferation Security Initiative should by itself have commanded the gratitude of the nation.  It was the PSI that caught out Qaddafi's nuclear program. President Bush seems to have operated on the assumption that no Republican is a bad Republican, so he has expended considerable capital on Senate...(Read Full Post)