Bloodthirsty John Bolton eager to kill North Koreans

[PA Democrat]

The following excerpt is from a Salon article about an op-ed written by Bolton and published in the February 28 edition of the Wall Street Journal. In the op-ed, Bolton advocates for a first strike against North Korea.

For decades, neoconservative militarism has coursed through Washington's veins; the idea that the United States must make aggressive military decisions, often unilaterally, in the international arena in order to preemptively thwart a perceived immediate threat, has become a norm.

"The threat is imminent, and the case against pre-emption rests on the misinterpretation of a standard that derives from prenuclear, pre-ballistic-missile times," Bolton wrote. "Given the gaps in U.S. intelligence about North Korea, we should not wait until the very last minute. That would risk striking after the North has deliverable nuclear weapons, a much more dangerous situation."

Bolton added, "How long must America wait before it acts to eliminate that threat?" To which one might counter: How many times in the past has this logic been an accepted, bipartisan line of questioning? It is American exceptionalism at its worst: the historically problematic notion that America is an exceptional nation, and that it and only it, holds altruistic intentions that justify preemptive violence and widespread war casualties, e.g. the half a million dead in Iraq as a result of America's attempt to bring "freedom" there.

Essentially, Bolton wants to launch an attack to take out the regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un; yet like many hawkish intervention plans of the past, Bolton fails to establish what that attack should be, and what it would actually accomplish in the long term besides killing thousands or millions of Koreans. Among the pertinent questions Bolton hasn't considered: what happens after the U.S. decimates a regime managing a country with 25 million people? A country that also borders the powerful U.S. foreign adversary, China?

https://www.salon.com/2018/03/01/bloodthirsty-john-bolton-eager-to-kill-north-koreans/

[BigmanPigman]

1. He wants to start a lot of wars with diff countries.

This is what we said the Fucking Moron would do for over a year...start a war to distract us from Russia and Mueller. DONE!

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Could Trump and Putin be setting up the "Gulf of Tonkin" around North Korea?

Pretend to hold out an olive branch and pretend that North Korea slapped it down killing some Americans/South Koreans/Japanese in the process?