I find Bolton to be a logical, rational thinker, and pretty astute at foreign policy.
I am baffled as to why he would make such comments, and it sheds a new light on Mr. Bolton's purview of politics and world affairs. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:55 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected] > wrote: > John Bolton is a rabid zionist warmonger to ignore. > On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 6:49:10 PM UTC-5, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> John Bolton: Israel should have attacked Iran 'yesterday'**** >> >> John Bolton (Photo: REUTERS) http://**unitycoalitionforisrael.org/** >> news/?p=9574 <http://unitycoalitionforisrael.org/news/?p=9574>**** >> >> >> >> **** >> >> “Israel should have attacked Iran yesterday – every day that goes by puts >> Israel in greater danger, every day Iran makes more progress,” John Bolton, >> a former US ambassador to the UN, told The Jerusalem Post in an interview >> on Monday.**** >> >> “I can understand why Israel wants us to take action, but the longer >> Israel waits for something that is not going to happen, the greater the >> danger Israel is in,” the senior fellow at the American Enterprise >> Institute said.**** >> >> The US and Israel cannot expect to have perfect intelligence about Iran’s >> nuclear capabilities, but if Israel attacked Iran after it gained that >> capability, there could be “nuclear retaliation,” he said.**** >> >> During his first term, President Barack Obama implied that the US would >> not resupply Israel with weapons used in attacking Iran, Bolton said. He >> added that overwhelming congressional support would have forced the issue >> of resupplying Israel in any case.**** >> >> Now he thinks the situation has changed and the issue is whether the US >> would take the necessary measures to make the case that Israel was acting >> legitimately in self-defense.**** >> >> The interview, coming a day after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said >> Iran was approaching the red line he set out at the UN last September, >> constituted a warning that Israel could attack Iran as a last resort to >> prevent it from gaining nuclear weapons capability.**** >> >> Asked about the chances that the US president would order an attack >> before any Israeli one, Bolton responded skeptically, “It would take a >> character transplant for Obama to order a US attack.”**** >> >> Bolton believes that the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iranian president >> will serve as a trap for the US, which will lull it into a false sense of >> security and more negotiations, inevitably leading to a nuclear Iran.**** >> >> One can already see this by the reaction of the EU and the White House to >> Rouhani’s election, he said.**** >> >> “The idea that Rouhani will negotiate seriously shows that this >> administration is on a different planet.”**** >> >> There have been more than 10 years of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear >> program and it has just kept building “a broad and deep infrastructure,” he >> said.**** >> >> “Rouhani is a snare for the unwary and we fell right into it,” said >> Bolton asserting that the main difference between President Mahmoud >> Ahmadinejad and the “moderate” president-elect is only rhetorical.**** >> >> “The moderates say, ‘Stop talking about it,’ and the radicals don’t stop >> talking about it.” In fact, “Rouhani boasted repeatedly about how he had >> suckered the EU during negotiations.”**** >> >> Regarding the regional fallout of an attack on Iran, Bolton said it is >> important that Israel and the US are politically aligned and sharing >> intelligence.**** >> >> And regarding US policy on Egypt and throughout the region, Bolton said >> the policy is “incoherent” because Obama does not understand the nature of >> radical Islam and the risk it poses. Obama believes that talking about >> Islam would be perceived in the region as attacking the religion even >> though Muslims are aware of the radical Islam issue.**** >> >> Bolton said that the only mistake the Egyptian military made so far was >> allowing Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director-general of the >> International Atomic Energy Agency, become vice president.**** >> >> And on Syria, he said that at this point the principal US interest is >> that chemical and biological weapons do not fall into the hands of >> terrorists. The country is going through a great tragedy, Bolton said, but >> he does not see supporting the opposition as a viable option.**** >> >> Asked about speculation regarding a presidential run in 2016, Bolton >> responded that he has not made a decision about running, but if he were to, >> it would be to get national security issues back to the center of political >> debate. International issues have “dropped under the radar screen,” and he >> would try to reverse that trend, he said. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> __,_._,___ >> >> >> -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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