WHEN EVEN JOHN BOLTON GETS TO BE SUBTLE....

Iran’s zealot in chief does Bush a favour (Tony Allen-Mills, New York and Ramita Navai, Tehran, 10/30/05, The Sunday Times of London)

THE situation was tailor-made for an undiplomatic outburst by John Bolton, the blunt-spoken US ambassador to the United Nations. Iran’s new president had just called for the destruction of Israel and Bolton has rarely minced his words when assailing the enemies of America and its allies.

Yet the ambassador last week restricted himself to a brief declaration of comparatively modest dismay and conspicuously failed to support Israel’s call for Iran to be expelled from the UN.

Behind the scenes US officials could barely contain their glee. For once President George W Bush’s administration did not need to unleash its rhetorical artillery against the ayatollahs of Iran — the rest of the world, led by Tony Blair, was doing it for them.

...you've just had a pretty good week.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 29, 2005 9:20 PM