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from the USA Today:
By John Bolton
America is in a race to stop Iran from making the world's most dangerous weapons, and we are losing.
Sadly, we have been behind the curve for years, and recent Obama administration claims about slowing Tehran down are little more than re-election propaganda. President Obama is still naively fixed on diplomacy with Iran, though it is laughable to believe our smooth-talking negotiators will chitchat Iran out of its nuclear ambitions. If Iran returns to talks, what is the compromise between our insistence that Iran cannot have nukes and Iran's determination to get them? That Iran gets to keep a small nuclear weapons program?
Sanctions have long been touted as the answer, but they are not. Iran has enough friends (Russia and China, plus Cuba, Venezuela and others on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent Latin jaunt) to withstand them. North Korea, the world's most heavily sanctioned country, with a population perennially near starvation, has exploded two nuclear devices. Nonetheless, both the Obama and Bush administrations sought negotiations with Pyongyang's criminal regime, an unfortunate tutorial for Tehran's mullahs.
Nor have assassinations, sabotage or the Stuxnet computer virus materially damaged Iran's program. While politicians claim these measures show they are "doing something" about Iran, objectively they simply enable its steady, clandestine progress. They are diversions masquerading as solutions. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-01-17/John-Bolton-Iran-military-action/52623920/1
barbtries
(28,702 posts)to this country. it's so wrong that he gets published as if his opinion has any worth whatsoever. fuck him.
FSogol
(45,357 posts)FSogol
(45,357 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)denbot
(9,894 posts)He should grab a rifle and some ammo and let his actions speak for himself, instead of pushing for others to do what he lacks the courage to do.
liberal N proud
(60,300 posts)Bang
Dreamer Tatum
(10,926 posts)marmar
(76,982 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)a total waste of skin
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Send him there if he wants a war. I'm all for warmongers paying for their wars in taxes while giving anti-war people tax breaks. I'm also for warmongers signing up and taking themselves to the battlefield.
If you want a war you pay for it and you fight it.
Insane people are running the world.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Faygo Kid
(21,477 posts)Of course. He is a bloodthirsty neocon killer.
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)"Bolton supported the Vietnam War and enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because "by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton