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...Tough Guy for a Tough Job President Bush's choice of John Bolton, who has been openly hostile to the U.N., to be U.S. ambassador to the organization was a gutsy move [March 21]. In my dozen or so years in the Washington foreign assistance field, as a political appointee and a career diplomat, I found no individual more honest and straightforward than Bolton. The man is brilliant, an off-putting quality to many in the State Department and foreign policy arena who adopt the maneuvering and cloying approaches traditionally viewed as "diplomatic." Bolton was a tough boss...
...village of Nam Dinh, which had 50 bombs dropped on it on June 18, a raid that destroyed about 60% of the hamlet. People are hard at work rebuilding their homes, but [her guide and interpreter] Quoc says that the area is bombed almost daily. The Cuban ambassador in Hanoi told me the other day that a dozen or more Cubans, accustomed to working in the fields with the Vietnamese, collapsed after three hours of packing the earth into a dike. Maybe they should have drunk some chrysanthemum-root...
PRESIDENT BUSH'S CHOICE OF JOHN Bolton, who has been openly hostile to the U.N., to be U.S. ambassador to the organization was a gutsy move [March 21]. In my dozen or so years in the Washington foreign-assistance field, as a political appointee and a career diplomat, I found no individual more honest and straightforward than Bolton. He was a tough boss and a straight-shooting friend and colleague who always let you know where you stood. He's an inspired and excellent choice...
...overseeing intelligence reform will fall to President's Bush's Director of National Intelligence, former ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte, who should be confirmed by the Senate soon. The new intelligence czar, a post created by Congress partly on the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, will oversee the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, some of which will continue to report to their traditional bureaucracies as well . The Justice Dept., for example, will continue to work closely with the FBI on its law enforcement functions, while DIA will continue to function...
...Exactly a year ago, for example, I attended a meeting of some New York intellectuals and Arab ambassadors to discuss the aftermath of the war in Iraq. As we left, one ambassador remarked to another that the U.S.-inspired elections might lead to the Shi'as achieving a dream they have held since the 7th century. But having resisted Shi'ite domination for almost 14 centuries, the Sunnis are unlikely to acquiesce quickly. Sudden democratic rule in the Middle East may not necessarily enhance American interests...