Ex-US Diplomats Oppose Bolton

According to the BBC, 59 former US diplomats wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to protest the nomination of John Bolton, Bush's nominee as UN Ambassador. (Hat tip to PoliBlog for the link.)

Among the most senior signatories was Arthur Hartman, former ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and assistant secretary of state for European affairs under President Richard Nixon.

Princeton Lyman, a former ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria, Monteagle Stearns, US representative in Greece and Ivory Coast, and Spurgeon Keeny Jr, Jimmy Carter's deputy director of arms control, also signed the letter.

Fortunately, I think their letter will have about as much an effect as if I wrote a letter myself.