Talk about sour grapes, you should have heard Ambassador John Bolton bluster for America on Radio 4 yesterday morning.
He was the personification of the 'Ugly American' with all the paranoia and lack of humour, that for many epitomises American attitudes to much of the rest of the world.
He resorted to attacking the interviewer 'John Humphries', and accused him of being a 'leftie', he attacked him rather than answer questions. It was a perfect picture of American colonial arrogance in the face of what he perceived to be criticism, but which was in fact fair questioning by said interviewer.
I have run into this attitude in some Americans before, the 'Nobody loves us, everybody hates us' attitude. Thankfully it is a point of view not found in most Americans I have met, but it is worrying to encounter such blindness in someone who has the ear of GWB. It makes me wonder if he was chosen for his post because he and GWB share the same attitude of mind.

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