Posted on 05/14/2019 8:55:44 AM PDT by rintintin
EEarlier this year, as Donald Trump prepared to meet the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, in Vietnam, he took a moment in the State of the Union address to congratulate himself on a diplomatic masterstroke: “If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea, with potentially millions of people killed.” For John Bolton, the national-security adviser, the summit represented a conundrum. Two months before he entered the White House, in April, 2018, he had called for preëmptive war with North Korea. During the past two decades, Bolton has established himself as the Republican Party’s most militant foreign-policy thinker—an advocate of aggressive force who ridicules anyone who disagrees
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He’s always been a hawk
New Yorker.
Crazy leftist rag, DNC mouthpiece.
I was in a doctor's office yesterday. My reading choices in the waiting room were Time, the New Yorker, People, and Highlights for Children.
Boy, I had such a good time finding the thing that did not belong...
This is not the time for the USA to get bogged down into yet another war. We still haven’t settled what GHWB started in the 1990’s! We don’t need declaration of a war to pull us together as a people. There must be other, more cost effect ways to show patriotism. I suspect John Bolton may decide to leave if he doesn’t get his way. There are moments that require a J. Bolton style war hawk. This is not such a time.
Maybe you need a new doctor?
FOUR wars already now, why not make it five..?
Why not make it TEN thousand invading the US every night..?
“This is not the time for the USA to get bogged down into yet another war. “
There is never a good time for war. Never.
However, there are times in the history of man when it is thrust upon us due to “irreconcilable differences”, or even attack.
A nuclear and ICBM armed Norklandia, or Iran, constitute both an existential threat and an irreconcilable difference.
It not something that will go away if we choose to ignore it. But it will grow and become even more dangerous.
We can deal with it now, or later...and later is STILL a bad time for war.
I was in a similar situation and spotted a cope of “Boys Life”, the scouting mag. “Boy oh boy”...now with girls.
Wish they’d had Highlights for Children...
Whenever I go to the doctor I take a bunch of gun magazines (address label removed) and place them throughout the waiting room.
No, the doctor is first-rate. I'd bet that the magazines in his waiting room were chosen by his receptionist or his nurse.
That's right dexter filkins, you snide, arrogant son of a butch: he congratulated himself to counter the fact that you aholes in the coastal media swamp will never congratulate him. Indeed, you pantywaist dweebs will lay into him every single time you write about him; so yeah, he congratulates himself.
I congratulate him too, and piss in your dexterdweeb direction.
Goofus and Gallant.
New Yorker can have good articles not about politics.
I haven’t read Time in decades.
In general I like Bolton but Japan’s reason for attacking Pearl Harbor keeps nagging at me and how similar our dealing with Iran is to it.
Cutting off Japan’s access to raw materials and SE Asia oil was a big part of their lashing out.
We keep goading Iran and they may do the same.
Iran looking forward to the ultimate holy war is disconcerting.
There is a case to be made for armed intervention in North Korea and/or Iran.
But here’s the problem with folks like Bolton. They make the case for armed intervention pretty much everywhere. Spend blood here. Spend treasure there. That’s the kind of thing that helped bring down the Roman Empire.
President Trump had the door wide open to a negotiation where South Korea could've brought North Korea to a new place, where peace and prosperity overwhelmed militaristic tendencies. I'm disappointed that President Trump is doing the war dance.
Correction, chicken hawk
Trump needs to rein in Bolton. We don’t want or need another war in Korea or ME. Sanctions and talk.
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