"A capacity for straight talking rather than peddling half-truths is a strength and not a disadvantage in diplomacy"

While John Bolton has earned the support of Margaret Thatcher and Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ann Coulter has a sentence that could be applied to many a European while discussing America:

…you know what liberals always say: "Where there's nothing, there's fire."

What the Iron Lady wrote to Bolton was that

A capacity for straight talking rather than peddling half-truths is a strength and not a disadvantage in diplomacy … Particularly in the case of a great power like America, it is essential that people know where you stand and assume that you mean what you say. With you at the UN, they will do both.

As for the Legal Affairs Correspondent for Human Events, she added:

I repeat: Bolton has been nominated to be ambassador to the United Nations. It's not like it's an important job. Get a grip, people! He's not replacing Paula Abdul on "American Idol."

The UN is an organization with thousands of people from all over the world with one thing in common: They badly need to be yelled at, preferably by a guy who looks like Wilford Brimley. When did collegiality with representatives from North Korea and Syria become a pressing national issue?

Why just imagine if Bolton raised his voice in front of Sudan's ambassador, or (gasp!) Burma's! I mean, Myanmar's! (Sorry, military junta that runs Myanmar!)

Democrats are enflamed at the idea of Bolton's mistreating representatives of slave-traders and dictators, but won't lift a finger to help the staff of "Today." We used to be a country that cared about ratings genocide.