Mark Steyn on John Bolton

It's not difficult to find anti-Bolton pieces in the news these days, but reading Mark Steyn's take on the UN nominee is always refreshing.

Sending Bolton to be U.N. ambassador is like . . . putting Sudan and Zimbabwe on the Human Rights Commission. Or letting Saddam's Iraq chair the U.N. Conference on Disarmament. Or sending a bunch of child-sex fiends to man U.N. operations in the Congo. And the Central African Republic. And Sierra Leone, and Burundi, Liberia, Haiti, Kosovo, and pretty much everywhere else.

As Steyn points out, the loudest argument from anti-Bolton advocates is that he is "undiplomatic" and "unapologetic" for the Iraq War (as if he's supposed to beg for forgiveness from Saddam's cronies). Instead, Bolton is clear and outspoken about the major problems and corruption within the UN. Steyn continues,

In recent years, I can find only one example of a senior U.N. figure having the guts to call a member state a "totalitarian regime." It was former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali last autumn, and he was talking about America. Bolton's sin isn't that he's "undiplomatic," but that he's correct.