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Racking his brain to think of something positive to say about the nominations of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, Paul Heinbecker ventured: "At least it gets them out of government."
Heinbecker, Canada's former ambassador to the U.N., usually is more diplomatic than that. But, like much of the international community, he is reeling from President George Bush's decision to name two of the hardest-line hawks in Washington to pivotal roles in the world's leading multilateral institutions. As undersecretary of state, Bolton was withering in his criticism of …
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