Dear Ambassador Bolton:
I recently read your Wall Street Journal opinion article (August 5) titled:"While Diplomats Dither, Iran Builds Nukes" and found it as deeply disturbing as I found disturbing your book "Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations". It is absolutely inscrutable to me why so few in Washington are so oblivious to (or worse, totally ignorant of) the gathering threat to this country currently being mounted, on so many varied and sinister fronts, by multiple enemy nations around the world. As a recently retired 30-year civil servant in the U.S. Department of Commerce (National Weather Service/NOAA), I am painfully aware of the major and chronic bureaucratic incompetencies that afflict all levels of the federal government. But it is hugely disturbing to see just "how the international, diplomatic sausage is made" in the State Department, the Administration, and at the UN as you clearly and brilliantly elucidate in your book. It is my deepest regret that you are not currently a candidate for President of the United States. You, unlike any others on the scene today, unquestionably have the most clear grasp of the greatest issues and the greatest threats confronting our country today that, left unchecked, could well be this country's undoing. The solutions and approaches that you have taken during your entire federal career and that you have detailed in your recent publications seem so obvious and clear! It is unbelievable to me that there is even any issue. Chamberlain was wrong; Churchill was right! Just how tough can it be for Washington politicians (including Administration clones) with their myopic, near-term, and self-serving agendas to recognize that fact! Again, many thanks for your service and for all that you do --- your observations and clarifications benefit hugely this country! I will continue to look forward to your prescient and telling commentary with hope.
Regards,
Tom Carroll
Bloomington, Minnesota
tomcarroll77@gmail.com
2008 August 9
