Ambassador John Bolton will join me at the top of the 3pm PT (6pm ET) hour today about the Bhutto assassination. Right after the ambassador Claudia Rossett comes on to share her perspective.
Ambassador Bolton also has a new book out. We’ll discuss “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad.” Here’s a summary:
With no-holds-barred candor, the straight-talking former ambassador to the United Nations takes readers behind the scenes at the U.N. and the U.S. State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the U.N. resulted in controversy. A veteran of three Republican administrations and a nominee for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, Bolton shows how the U.S. can lead the way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies the next generation of threats to America…
In this revealing memoir, he candidly recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, which resulted in his recess appointment, and his sixteen-month tenure at the United Nations. Bolton offers keen insight into such international crises as North Korea’s nuclear test, Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, the genocide in Darfur, the month-long negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and more. Recounting both his successes and frustrations in taking a hard line against weapons of mass destruction proliferators, terrorists, and rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, he also exposes the operational inadequacies that hinder the U.N.’s effectiveness in international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the United States. At home, he criticizes the pernicious bureaucratic inertia in the U.S. State Department that can undermine presidential policy.
John Bolton – the man who should have been running State instead of the treacherous Colin Powell and Clueless Condi Rice.
Fantastic analysis Tammy on Bhutto. I am looking foward to hearing the interview with Bolton and indeed your entire show tomorrow. Thanks for being here, we need to hear from you now..
Terrific interview with Bolton. Just listening to him makes me feel more calm in the midst of all the madness going on. Such clarity in his approach to things. (I love everything about him.)
Claudia Rossett’s reference to the “sanctification” of Bhutto was interesting. And appreciated your point that Bhutto, though imperfect (alright, corrupt!), represented all that the islamic fascists HATE. That goes a long way in my book and was at least something to hold on to.
Maybe you should send a transcript of both interviews to the White House. I have a sinking feeling the President and Rice are going to end up doing something to make a really bad situation WORSE.
This is the man we need in the White House. No nonsense and not caught up in the political correctness that our current candidates bow before. All their replies to the Bhutto murder were weak and left me just as indifferent as I ever was about the lot of them. I’m sure for the democrats it will be business as usual next week discussing the most pressing issues such as health care and education. John Bolton gets it.