Bolton he is not

By Melanie Phillips
December 4, 2007
The Spectator
Original Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/386171/bolton-he-is-not.thtml
Last week, I happened to meet America’s former Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton. He was utterly dismayed about Annapolis. President Bush, he said, had torn up everything he believed in. Bolton thought the main reason this had happened was that Bush was simply so determined to get Iraq right that he had left absolutely everything else to Condoleezza Rice and the depredations of the State Department. The result was that at Annapolis, terror had been rewarded, its Israeli victims offered up as sacrificial lambs and the Bush doctrine fed to the flames.
If Bush did allow his attention to wander so dangerously, another spectacular car crash has been Bolton’s successor as UN Ambassador, the much-lionised Zalmay Khalilzad, in the immediate aftermath of Annapolis. In a startling departure from diplomatic protocol, last Thursday Khalilzad tried to present to the Security Council, on the penultimate day of its chairmanship by Indonesia, a US resolution endorsing the Annapolis joint statement — without even showing Israel the text first. No wonder: Israel would have undoubtedly gone ballistic, since such an endorsement would have given teeth to the Annapolis suicide note and involved Israel's mortal enemies in overseeing the ‘peace process’. When this piece of treachery was discovered, the US hastily withdrew its resolution.

It turns out that Khalilzad may have one or two agendas of his own. Last Tuesday, American eyebrows hit the roof when Fox News discovered US Ambassador Khalilzad having lunch with George Soros, the billionaire anti-Bush activist and funder of Moveon.org. As Fox observed, on the surface the two of them would appear to have had little to talk about.

Strange how Soros keeps popping up in this kind of context — he is of course a close associate of Britain’s controversial minister for the UN Lord Malloch Brown, whose peculiar appointment to the British government no-one has yet been able to explain.

As the http://www.nysun.com/article/67392%20 New York Sun has gone on to tell us, Khalilzad’s intriguing luncheon companion last week was by no means his only chum with a profoundly anti-western agenda: 
A former top U.N. inside operator largely considered a foe by Washington, Pakistan's Iqbal Riza, was the first man Mr. Khalilzad had for lunch as he moved into the official ambassador's residence at the Waldorf-Astoria in April. 

Khalizad has also http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/world/06khalilzad.html?_r=2&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Khalilzad,%20Zalmay&oref=slogin&oref=slogin mentioned his close friendship with former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi . But Brahami has repeatedly expressed his hostility to Israel and has been reported as boasting that he was proud 
never to have knowingly shaken the hand of an Israeli or a Jew. 

Just like the Saudis at Annapolis – the subject of Ambassador Khalilzad’s attempted UN demarche. Well there's a coincidence.