Bolton Unleashed

Jay Nordlinger reviews John Bolton's new book, Surrender is not an Option. It looks like a must read.

There are many reasons I like Bolton and this would be one of them:

While at State in the first GWB term, Bolton gave a speech in Seoul that told the truth about North Korea. For this, the Norks called him the “envoy of evil.” Bolton took great pleasure in that. Indeed, he took pleasure in subsequent epithets, too: The Norks further called him “human scum”; and some Chávezite, in Venezuela, called him a “sinister figure.” In his book, Bolton revels in all this.

His “happiest moment” at State was “personally ‘unsigning’ the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court (ICC).” He says, “The reaction from the High Minded was entirely predictable, but my only regret is that we didn’t unsign more bad treaties, like Kyoto and the CTBT [Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty] . . .” That’s Bolton.

If Bolton were to join the Presidential race right now, he would be the immediate number two if not take over the lead. He's the guy we all hoped Fred Thompson would be but, alas, that Thompson has yet to materialize.