Unacceptable Indeed

January 30th, 2008 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags:
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As Ed notes, Khalilzad made several mistakes:

1. He wasn’t authorized to appear at this forum

2. He allowed the speaker to insult his predecessor

Powerline has Bolton’s reaction:

When I was at the UN, this would not have happened. Perhaps the State Department or the White House are sending a signal to Iran that our policy is weakening yet again. They should be asked to say one way or the other on the record.

In the Netherlands, this man would be forced to resign.

I’m in complete agreement with PoliGazette subblogger Kevin Sullivan: “What the far Left doesn’t seem to get, although they certainly would wise up were it a Democrat in question, is that you need to have policy discipline from your ambassadors.  This isn’t about the hawks vs. the diplomats, or whatever.  If this were a Democratic administration there’d be no tolerance for this kind of behavior… In the real world, if you piss off your boss like this on your own behalf, you get a pink slip.”

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