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Bolton: Washington committed serious mistake by recognizing Kosovo’s independence
RUVR ^ | June 26, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 06/26/2008 11:23:57 PM PDT by Bokababe

American Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton believes the United States committed a serious mistake when it recognized the independence of Kosovo. He fears such policy may escalate tensions in the Balkans. In an interview for the Russian news agency Interfax, Mr. Bolton remarked that Washington’s policy was on autopilot since the regime of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. But the situation has changed considerably after the democratic government took over, which, in Mr. Bolton’s opinion, makes support for Kosovo’s independence a pointless atavism.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antichristian; appeasement; bolton; clintonswar; geopolitics; islamofascists; jihad; kosovo; serbia; wrongplace; wrongside; wrongtime; wrongwar
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Why doesn't someone make John Bolton Secretary of State?
1 posted on 06/26/2008 11:23:58 PM PDT by Bokababe
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Why doesn’t someone make John Bolton Secretary of State?

For 6 months? Would he want it? I don’t think that President Bush is going to replace anyone at this point.


2 posted on 06/26/2008 11:28:38 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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And McCain, even if he wins, won’t. Because Bolton has got a brain and isn’t a yes man.


3 posted on 06/26/2008 11:33:28 PM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

4 posted on 06/27/2008 12:00:57 AM PDT by Liberty2007 (Here's Savage's analysis of the POTUS race The “Afro-Leninist v. the sarcophagus”.)
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To: Bokababe
From the UK: John Boulton comes over as the most sensible man on the planet.

Is he too forthright to be a presidential candidate - too many enemies?

5 posted on 06/27/2008 12:34:06 AM PDT by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: vimto; dennisw

If this straight-shootin’ Yosemite Sam is put on the ticket, I’d gladly vote for Juan McCrazy.


6 posted on 06/27/2008 12:38:31 AM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: Bokababe

Kosovo is an arm of the Al Quito backed KLA drug runners!


7 posted on 06/27/2008 12:53:06 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (McCain will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: Liberty2007

Well it sure wasn’t obvious to the folks at the White House.


8 posted on 06/27/2008 1:14:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: vimto

Bolton’s enemies in Congress and the State Dept are probably
less because of his being “forthright”, and more because
he is pro-America (unlike them).


9 posted on 06/27/2008 2:39:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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Why doesn't someone make John Bolton Secretary of State?

Why doesn't John Bolton pull papers and run for office? I see him as a self appointed ministre sans portefeuille. Test the waters John.

10 posted on 06/27/2008 2:52:06 AM PDT by ninonitti
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“Why doesn’t someone make John Bolton Secretary of State?”

Ever hear the name “Bork”?

“Why doesn’t John Bolton pull papers and run for office?”

I’d vote for John Bolton for any position he wanted to run for.


11 posted on 06/27/2008 4:22:51 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Bokababe
United States...recognized the independence of Kosovo.

Recognized it? Hell, we engineered it!

12 posted on 06/27/2008 5:07:56 AM PDT by Rudder
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Why doesn't someone make John Bolton Secretary of State?

Because he's completely full of crap. During the 1990s he was a strong advocate of U.S. military intervention in the Balkans to topple the Serb government and separate Kosovo from "greater Yugoslavia."

13 posted on 06/27/2008 5:14:32 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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Why doesn't John Bolton pull papers and run for office?

I'd switch my vote from Barr to Bolton. Bolton is infinitely better than McCain.

14 posted on 06/27/2008 5:16:09 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: DoughtyOne

they got exposed to dumbtonium radiation


15 posted on 06/27/2008 5:25:08 AM PDT by Liberty2007 (Here's Savage's analysis of the POTUS race The “Afro-Leninist v. the sarcophagus”.)
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To: rockinqsranch

bttt


16 posted on 06/27/2008 5:28:17 AM PDT by Guenevere (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.)
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To: Ezekiel
"If this straight-shootin’ Yosemite Sam is put on the ticket, I’d gladly vote for Juan McCrazy.

Hey if Bolton was RVP candidate, even I'd think about voting for McCrazy -- but not without hoping and praying that McCain would fossilize before Inauguration Day!

17 posted on 06/27/2008 9:57:38 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Bokababe

No kidding.


18 posted on 06/27/2008 10:04:24 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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What I don’t understand here is Bolton is Undersecretary of State, and even after Bush has decided for Kosovo Independence, Bolton is still talking about this — to Russia, no less. Kind of a surprise that Bolton wouldn’t fall in line with the Administration’s position, regardless of what he thought or had said previously.

Bolton is right on this, but it does make you wonder what goes on over there at Foggy Bottom and why Bolton doesn’t give a darn what Bush — or even McCain— thinks.


19 posted on 06/27/2008 10:11:17 AM PDT by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Liberty2007

I think you’ve broken the code. Dumbtonium it is!


20 posted on 06/27/2008 11:49:20 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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