Comments on: John Bolton: Obama the Naive

By: Libertyship46

Libertyship46 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:49:54 +0000

Hey Steve, I love how you said, “The neocon agenda to marginalize the United Nations and set unrealistic preconditions to talks with “rogue states” is a cornerstone of their “breathtakingly naïve” vision of “American Empire”. Unrealistic preconditions? I guess wanting Iran not to wipe Israel off the face of the planet with nuclear weapons is an “unrealistic precondition,” right? ” As for the “neocon agenda to marginalize the United Nations,” well, the United Nations has done a wonderful job marginalizing itself, functioning as the most useless, corrupt, and impotent debating society the world has ever seen. They keep passing resolutions that nobody enforces and they wonder why Iran (or any other country) doesn’t take them seriously. The Europeans, certainly no friends to this administration, have been negotiating with the Iranians for years now trying to get them to give up their quest for nuclear weapons, and what has it gotten them? Oh, that’s right, NOTHING! So much for European diplomacy and negotiations. I guess that makes them “breathtakingly naïve” to think that the Iranians really want to solve this peacefully. And the much vaunted I.A.E.A. doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere either. They keep “warning” Iran, but not much seems to be happening. Far-left loons such as yourself, Steve, can afford to be terribly wrong in your assessment of Iranian intentions. Unfortunately, Israel, Europe, and the United States don’t have the luxury of being wrong all the time. One day soon Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon. Then what are naive pacifists like you going to say, “Oooops, sorry, we were wrong?” Tell that to the people living in Tel Aviv, London, Paris, or Rome, all potential targets for the Iranians. People like you make me ill.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:57:44 +0000

I love John Bolton, can you imagine him as president???

By: Steve Weller

Steve Weller — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:52:05 +0000

John R. Bolton, who symbolizes everything wrong with the foreign policies of the Cheney/Bush presidency, is in no position to pontificate on the subject of diplomacy. Throughout his career he has demonstrated utter ignorance of its fundamental precepts—both as a man, and, more importantly, as a diplomat!

The neocon agenda to marginalize the United Nations and set unrealistic preconditions to talks with “rogue states” is a cornerstone of their “breathtakingly naïve” vision of “American Empire”. Iraq was to be their first simple step in “democratizing” the Middle East; and we all know how well that’s working out. We can thank Bolton and his friends Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, all fellows of the American Enterprise Institute, for this foreign policy disaster.

Bolton quotes his mentor, the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick, a coconspirator in the Iran/Contra affair and yet another AEI fellow. Her neo-fascist spirit survives in his proven mastery of Machiavellian machination and mendacity…

So why should we believe anything John Bolton says about Barack Obama?