John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran
By: Daniel Luban
October 14, 2009

John Bolton Suggests Nuclear Attack on Iran. This Friday, the American Enterprise Institute will host an event addressing the question "Should Israel attack Iran?" The event includes, among others, Iran uberhawk Michael Rubin and infamous "torture lawyer" John Yoo, but the real star is likely to be John Bolton, the former U.N. ambassador whose right-of-Attila views left him an outcast even within the second Bush administration. (Bolton was eventually forced out when it became clear that he would be unable to win Senate confirmation for the U.N. post.)

If Bolton's recent rhetoric is any indication, his AEI appearance may accomplish the formidable feat of making Michael Rubin sound like a dove. Discussing Iran during a Tuesday speech at the University of Chicago, Bolton appeared to call for nothing less than an Israeli nuclear first strike against the Islamic Republic. (The speech, sponsored by the University Young Republicans and Chicago Friends of Israel, was titled , apparently without a trace of irony, "Ensuring Peace.")

"Negotiations have failed, and so too have sanctions," Bolton said, echoing his previously-stated belief that sanctions will prove ineffectual in changing Tehran's behavior. "So we're at a very unhappy point — a very unhappy point — where unless Israel is prepared to use nuclear weapons against Iran's program , Iran will have nuclear weapons in the very near future."

Bolton made clear that the latter option is unacceptable. "There are some people in the administration who think that it's not really a problem, we can contain and deter Iran, as we did the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I think this is a great, great mistake and a dangerously weak approach...Whatever else you want to say about them, at least the Soviets believed that they only went around once in this world, and they weren't real eager to give that up — as compared to a theological regime in Tehran which yearns for life in the hereafter more than life on earth...I don't think deterrence works that way with a country like Iran."

While Bolton coyly refused to spell out his conclusion, the implications of his argument were clear. If neither negotiations, nor sanctions, nor deterrence are options, then by his logic the only remaining option is for "Israel...to use nuclear weapons against Iran's program."

Of course, it is nothing new for Bolton and his neoconservative allies to threaten an Israeli strike against Iran. But Bolton's use of the "n-word" is, I believe, new for him, and marks a significant rhetorical escalation from the hawks.

http://thefastertimes.com/diplomacy/200 ... k-on-iran/

http://www.iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/208200

[kolnidre]

What kind of country allows psychopaths like Bolton to say shit like that, not only without any repercussions, but even getting others to discuss his insane suggestions seriously?

If Israel is so precious, Bolton and Rubin, hurry up and "make aliyah"!

[scorpio]

I attended a speech that Bolton gave several years ago.
The man is 100% pure organic zionist warmonger.