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[18] Quoted in Media Matters, “Right-Wing Media Point Fingers At Obama For Libya, Egypt Attacks,” September 13, 2012,http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/09/13/right-wing-media-point-fingers-at-obama-for-lib/189885.



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[41] John Bolton, “Paris attacks: Four important lessons world must learn from French tragedy,” Fox News, November 14, 2015,http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/11/14/paris-attacks-important-lessons-must-heed-from-french-tragedy.html.



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[44] Quoted by James Traub, The Best of Intentions: Kofi Anna and the UN in the Era of American World Power (Macmillan, 2007), http://is.gd/KhqpHj.



[45] Cited in Sidney Blumenthal, “The Empire Strikes Back,” Salon, March 10, 2005, http://www.salon.com/2005/03/10/john_bolton/.



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[48] Ian Williams, “John Bolton in Jerusalem: The New Age of Disarmament Wars,” Foreign Policy In Focus, February 20, 2003,http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles2/Williams_DisarmamentWars.htm.



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[51] Walter Pincus, “Taiwan Paid State Nominee For Papers on U.N. Reentry; Bolton’s Objectivity On China Is Questioned,”Washington Post, April 9, 2001.



[52] David Corn, “Bush Gives the UN the Finger,” The Nation, March 7, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/blog/156155/bush-gives-un-finger.



[53] John Bolton, “Time for a Two-China Policy,” Weekly Standard, August 9, 1999,http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/010/035hfajj.asp



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[57] Warren Hoge, “Praise at Home for Envoy, But Scorn at the UN,” New York Times, July 23, 2006,http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/world/23bolton.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.



[58] Brian Urquhart, “One Angry Man,” New York Review of Books, March 6, 2008, http://nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/mar/06/one-angry-man/.



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