Not only is John Bolton almost always right, he is the only person ever sent to the UN who went with the realistic understanding that he was, as an American, DEEP in enemy territory.
In fact, it is no great error to say that every other ambassador to the UN has actively worked against the US while there - especially the disastrous Madeline Albright.
“U.S. acquiescence in a second North Korean nuclear test will likely mean that Tehran will adopt Pyongyang’s successful strategy.”
Subsequent events in the past 24 hours have borne out a second prescient prediction made by Bolton in the same editorial.
“he is the only person ever sent to the UN who went with the realistic understanding that he was, as an American, DEEP in enemy territory.”
Of course, critics will say that if John Bolton hadn’t been so mean, NK surely would have desisted from its nuclear weapons and missile testing in 2009. This is what’s scary about Obama’s BIOB (blame-it-on-Bush) view of the world. It’s impervious to facts on the ground, as any misbehavior by tinpot dictators can be explained away as being attributable to Bush’s intransigence during his years in office.