Barack Obama combines a feel-good approach to international diplomacy with a carefully veiled IRON FIST

Only three years ago, the bristling, moustached figure of John Bolton prowled the corridors of the United Nations as America's Ambassador to an organisation he wholeheartedly despised.

"There is no such thing as the United Nations," he bluntly declared. "There is only the international community – which can only be led by the only remaining superpower." If the UN's Manhattan tower block were to lose 10 storeys, said Mr Bolton, this "wouldn't make a bit of difference".


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