WHO TO REPLACE BOLTON? It's no secret that Bolton was Cheney's man and that Secretary Rice was less than pleased with him. It's also no secret that when negotiations got particularly sensitive Rice would do her utmost to cut out Bolton by dispatching Nicholas Burns to New York or intervening herself. So the question on my mind is who will wield more influence in the internal debate over Bolton's replacement: Rice or Cheney?
There are a few names being kicked around: Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, Representative Jim Leach, and Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky to name a few. Each of these three could be described as foreign policy pragmatists from of Secretary Rice's camp. If this holds, it seems that we may be in for a course correction at the United Nations.
--Mark Leon Goldberg
