by TChris

Another former colleague of John Bolton has advanced the opinion that Bolton's lack of diplomatic skills makes him an inappropriate choice to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

[Frederick] Vreeland, who worked with Bolton in the early 1990s under the first President Bush, said Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative."

"He spoke of the U.N. as being the enemy," Vreeland added in the e-mail sent Friday to Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware. The e-mail was first reported by Time magazine. "It is totally erroneous to speak of Bolton as a diplomat."

According to Vreeland, if the Bush administration's policy is "not to reform the U.N but to destroy it" -- and that very well may be the Bush administration's unstated policy -- "Bolton is our man."