The Economist weighs in ....

"Love at second sight" Mar 23rd 2005 NEW YORK From The Economist print edition

"A new ambassador and a new reform plan go down better than expected"

"IF JOHN BOLTON, intellectual scourge of woolly multilateralism, became America's ambassador to the United Nations, it would be a signal that George Bush wanted to lower the scandal-ridden body into its grave. That was the general view at the UN when Mr Bolton's name was first mooted. Now that the shock of his actually being nominated for the job on March 7th has started to abate, some senior UN types are beginning to argue that such a conservative heavyweight could, if properly handled, prove rather useful."