Bolton Fires Back at Kofi Annan Over Sudan

Just days after Kofi Annan has criticized the West, in particular the U.S. for not doing more in Sudan, John Bolton fired back that the Secretary General is using a double standard.

"It would be helpful, I think, if the secretary-general, in addition to prodding the U.S., could also be out there talking to the African Union and the Arab League, and in fact, even talking to his own peacekeepers about the importance of moving ahead," Mr. Bolton told reporters yesterday.

"It's important that whatever is being said rhetorically" by Mr. Annan, Mr. Bolton added, "should be matched by what the Secretariat planners are doing."

You don't send a sheep to do a wolf's job - which is why Bolton is the right man at the U.N.