Surrender Is Not an Option by John Bolton

Ultimately, Bolton stood for a short-term, opportunistic and confrontational approach based an ideologically motivated incapacity to deal with multilateralism. The UN that Bolton had to deal with was already so weakened that it was impervious to further damage. Bolton was not the man to improve multilateral relationships and, in hindsight, both he and Bush would have been better off following in the footsteps of George Bush Sr, in "keeping everything flowing smoothly and not getting anyone upset". Such a strategy might not have improved America's position in the UN system, but at least it would not have further degraded it.