Virgil Goode is Gonna Plotz!

Bush to appoint Muslim to U.N. Post:

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, will be nominated by President Bush to become the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, a senior administration official said Thursday.

Khalilzad, who is Afghan born, has served also as ambassador to Afghanistan. He is likely to be replaced in Baghdad by Ryan Crocker, a veteran American diplomat, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make an announcement for the White House.

Appointing a qualified muslim to a post as important internationally as U.N. Ambassador is a fine thing. However, I'd feel better if his last job was a bit more, shall we say, "successful"? I'd also feel better but for this:

Khalilzad, an unusually outspoken diplomat known as a protege of Vice President Dick Cheney, would take the U.N. seat at a time when the world body is in the spotlight in confrontations with Iran, North Korea and in the Middle East.