Scathing though it is, your review of John Bolton’s memoir, Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad (New York: Threshold Editions, 2007), is hardly scathing enough (“Looking Back in Anger,” December 15, 2007). “In this book,” you state blithely at the outset, “this undeniably talented man of principle often comes across as a domineering bully.” Yet, your own review clearly shows that the only principle he has ever stood for is that American might is always right. Period. If there is any talent to this man, it is precisely in domineering and bullying. But there is another domineering bully behind him that your review misses entirely: George Bush Junior. After all, the American ambassador to the United Nations was the president’s personal choice. An arch-conservative and fierce patriot, too, he knew exactly how this undeniably talented man of principle would do his bidding at the United Nations. And abroad.