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With no-holds-barred candor, the former ambassador to the United Nations takes readers behind the scenes at the UN and the U.S. State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the U.S. can lead the way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies the next generation of threats to America.In this revealing memoir, John Bolton re… More >>
Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations
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John Bolton is a petty, mean-spirited insecure little man. This book is just a litany of every tiny slight and every word of praise from any other Neo-Con non-entity. Dull, poorly written and unrevealing of the realities of how the UN works or how the US dominates its actions (while permanently sniping at it). The UN and other global institutions such as the World Bank were created by the US to serve its interests and they do that to this day. There are problems there but Bolton never made any real effort to reform them. He was a dog in the manger during the reform attempts under Kofi Annan and is now a whining, ignorant man who has been wrong about everything.
Rating: 1 / 5
Nobody asked for “self-surrender”, pea brain. I guess this’ll just have to be another neocon straw dog… the dangerous philosophy of presenting one mediocre idea, so that the reader will make the choice of the “better idea” which follows.
Rating: 1 / 5
What an exercise in egotistical self-promotion. Bolton bungled everything he touched in the State Department and the UN because of his colossal vanity. Here he documents his failures using the ludicrous excuses of his ‘toughness’ and ‘uncompromising integrity.’ In reality, he compromised American welfare time and time and time again in his efforts to make himself a cult figure and bully. He’s the most self-serving character since Clarence Thomas and his tedious, didactic book shows it. I was given a review copy, not only is his book a waste of your time, but you will be contributing to the delinquency of an immature gangster by seeing your money go to Mr. Bolton. The right wing, the lying radio commentators and the crooked Publicans have made a career of exploiting American politics and the American people because they stand for nothing and advance a culture of destruction and self-promotion. Mr. Bolton and his book proclaim the moral bankruptcy of this position in his own words. Reading his book is like smelling a rotting corpse.
Rating: 1 / 5
thank god I did not pay for it. ANOTHER NEOCON who did not take TWO english classes in college. SAVE YOUR MONEY.
Rating: 1 / 5
Given his impressive tenure (1 year) as UN Ambassador, this guy is really qualified as an expert in world affairs. The loudmouth is so bad at diplomacy, he couldn’t even get confirmed as ambassador by the conservative-led Senate, our braindead president had to recess-appoint him, which meant bypassing the democratic process (such an obstacle, that democracy stuff).
But, finger pointing is always good when you have no real message to convey. I bought this book just to have a finger-pointing bully stare me in the face every day to remind me who I want, and don’t want, to run this country. I have learned to never, ever, take my voting privileges lightly. I also hang it on the door at Halloween.
Rating: 2 / 5