The Best Case for Bolton

The strongest argument in favor of confirming John Bolton to be UN Ambassador is: we certainly don't want him to go back to his old job.

For years, a key U.S. program intended to keep Russian nuclear fuel out of terrorist hands has been frozen by an arcane legal dispute. As undersecretary of state, John R. Bolton was charged with fixing the problem, but critics complained he was the roadblock.

Now with Bolton no longer in the job, U.S. negotiators report a breakthrough with the Russians and predict a resolution will be sealed by President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an international summit in Scotland next month, clearing the way to eliminate enough plutonium to fuel 8,000 nuclear bombs.

With all the noise about NSA intercepts, and lying during his hearings, and harassing co-workers, and making wild speeches, there really hasn't been much focus on it, but his primary skill seems to be tossing monkey wrenches into any process he's involved in.

If only we could get him confirmed for a job with the Iraqi insurgency.