Showing posts with label John Bolton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Bolton. Show all posts

7/2/09

Time for an Israeli Strike?

As if the Washington Post and the New York Times didn't do enough to push the Iraq war, we now have the Post giving column inches to John Bolton the crazy former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. By the way, Bolton was never confirmed by the Senate, Bush had to use a recess appointment to get him the job.

Bolton always wants to attack Iran, and in this goofy essay he suggests that after the attack a public diplomacy campaign could be successfully directed at the Iranian's currently risking their lives to protest the elections. That is the few who survive. Peacenik is sure a public diplomacy campaign waged in the midst of nuclear fallout would work just fine.

By John R. Bolton
Thursday, July 2, 2009

With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.

Iran's nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take Iran to finalize a deliverable nuclear weapons capability.

Read on...

2/3/09

The Neo Con New York Times

Peacenik looks at the byline of this op-ed piece in the New York Times and Peacenik almost gives up hope. Hope that any world problems can be resolved peacefully. John Bolton is a warmonger. John Bolton is a neo con. John Bolton wants war with Iran. Yet here is John Bolton, blithely offerring up his opinions on Iraq and Iran. Check out this story about Iraq and then decide how wonderful the "surge" has been. A totally discredited, shameless warmonger commands the op-ed pages of the New York Times. John Bolton shouldn't be able to get a letter to the editor of the Parry Sound Beacon published. Peacenik is speechless.