Amb. John Bolton: Two critical conclusions from Orlando terror attack

Fox News ^ | June 12, 2016 | Amb. John Bolton

[jazusamo]

Sunday brought the latest terrorist attack in America, the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, with all its attendant tragedy. Words cannot adequately describe the horror that engulfed the scene of this massacre, caused by one Omar Mir Seddique Mateen.

Beyond the human cost, however, also lies the tragedy that Barack Obama, speaking even as it became clear that the murderer was a radical Islamic terrorist, is still unable or unwilling to draw the appropriate conclusions. The president’s remarks omitted any linkages between the cold-blooded murders, the terrorist’s ideology, and the broader international threat that motivated the Orlando killer and perhaps others yet unknown.

We will, in the coming days, doubtless hear that the terrorist was a lone wolf, that he did not belong to any known terrorist organization, that there are no wider threats. In particular, those who are blind to the terrorist threat will downplay even the incontrovertible fact that Mateen pledged loyalty to ISIS as he committed his murders.

Two critical conclusions follow immediately from Sunday’s tragic reality, one with immediate implications for our domestic safety, and one for conducting the broader international war against terrorism.

[B212]

excellent point.....degrees of radicalization, I guess

[Churchillspirit]

Hope President Trump RE-appoints John Bolton as US Ambassador to the UN.

[CottonBall]

“We will, in the coming days, doubtless hear that the terrorist was a lone wolf, that he did not belong to any known terrorist organization, that there are no wider threats. “

Hearing it already - that it is a hate crime only. MSNBC could talk of nothing else.

And some idiot gay people interviewed were saying they’d get even. How exactly? By voting democrat so more Muslims come in and kill more gays? Idiots.

[CottonBall]

But his parents were not.

Importing people that do not come here to become Americans, but to change the US, whether it is illegals or Muslims with allegiance to their homeland is the problem. They pass their ideas onto their children and our public schools encourage it.

[CottonBall]

Yup, the pretend religion Islam is the issue. Trump referenced it when saying we have to figure out what the problem is. He knows it, but can’t say it - yet.

[BlackElk]

Alberta's Child:

One problem with the internet is that we post what we please anonymously behind the curtain of screen names. This encourages us to indulge in irresponsible nonsense and to fill in the blanks with our fantasies when we have insufficient information. We indulge conspiracy claims, use inappropriate descriptive terms with abandon, make claims beyond all artional restraint, etc.

I became acquainted personally with John Bolton when he was a Yale undergraduate and continuing through his time at Yale Law School. He is the son of a Baltimore fireman, making him of somewhat more modest background and upbringing than most at Yale back then (late 1960s, early 1970s) when he also served as Executive Director of Lux et Veritas, Inc., a student-alumni group slamming the genuinely "globalist" Yale Administration of Yale President Kingman Brewster. Brewster spent his tenure on his knees before Yale's radical left and substantially damaging the university. You can read a lot about it in books of the late Robert Bork.

I have not seen or talked with John Bolton in decades but character counts and he has and always has had character. He is quite bright and quite principled and always has been. Likewise, he is a man of measured judgment. It is not without reason that the left fears a John Bolton in charge of American foreign policy, a man who understands that all is not diployakkery.

You and I have often agreed here and sometimes disagreed. On this matter of John Bolton, and knowing John Bolton as I do, I can tell you that you should be ashamed of yourself. Your characterizations of John Bolton are quite inaccurate and quite unjust. I gather that you are a "paleo" and therefore allergic to interventionist assertions of American military strength. You are entitled to that opinion but it is hardly in synch with modern American conservatism of the Bill Buckley era and forward. The conservatism of James Burnham, of Jeanne Kirkpatrick, of Ronald Reagan, ad not that paler defensive variety that was forever blasted to smithereens by the attack on Pearl Harbor coupled with Hitler's depradations in Europe and the unrelieved evil of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho, and now bin Laden and the Islamofacisti.

Protecting Americans certainly requires strict border enforcement. exclusion of all immigration of Muslim immigrants unless and until there is a reliable test for radicalism (not likely) and such immigration somehow serves OUR American interests as a nation and not merely those of the business "community."

Sitting around doing nothing by way of interventionism makes no more sense than open borders or encouraging Muslim immigration. There are solid reasons why wimpy Neville Chamberlain and his American counterparts (Lindbergh, McGovern, etc.) are reviled by sensible Americans for their knee jerk pacifism in the face of external threats and why Winston Churchill, MacArthur and Patton are admired.

[Mr Rogers]

“The homosexual lobby supports Islam because...” they work for the same father, the Father of Lies.

[BlackElk]

Then make provision to expatriate American born Muslims (and their relatives) as deemed necessary or desirable for AMERICAN interests.

[jazusamo]

Thanks, BlackElk, well stated.

[steve86]

“Trump should orchestrate a healing event between gays and conservatives on this occasion”

Queers can heal themselves right into Armageddon as far as I’m concerned.

[Lazamataz]

One problem with the internet is that we post what we please anonymously behind the curtain of screen names. This encourages us to indulge in irresponsible nonsense and to fill in the blanks with our fantasies when we have insufficient information. We indulge conspiracy claims, use inappropriate descriptive terms with abandon, make claims beyond all artional restraint, etc.

This is EXACTLY what I would expect from a Reptilian shapeshifter lizard man like you. Stop trying to impregnate the human race with your lizard DNA so you can eventually harvest our flesh for your vast interstellar empire! You eat cats, and that is disgusting enough! Away with you, Reptilian!

[BlackElk]

Laz: You should really try to resist that moderation and courtesy and, above all, that intellectually sophisticated approach.

[Salvation]

**We simply must start acknowledging that terrorists — whether ISIS, Al Qaeda, or others — are not structured like governments or corporations. **

BTTT!

[Lazamataz]

SHAPESHIFTER!!!!

[Publius]

"Did somebody say something about eating a cat?"

[jobim]

I was not attacking Bolton per se in my post, but wondering mightily why he would omit mention of immigration. And I also categorize him as more a neoconservative, and hence his greater inclination to engage in use of the military.

I have admired him in the past, especially when he was at the UN. But why didn't he address the #1 issue? And I realize all aspects of our war with radislam are connected, but there still is a hierarchy.

[Yaelle]

I’d call that a perfect diss of Obama and a Trump endorsement.

Thank you, Mr. Bolton.

Read his words if you haven’t. Hold onto your neck as you read, because that much nodding in agreement could make your head fall off.

[Yaelle]

Cool picture of ValJar. That is the most human she has looked in a long time.

[Elsie]

Target rich environment

[Elsie]

Islam is a sharply divided religion to the point that many of those who practice it kill one another for being the wrong brand.

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He said, "Religious."

 

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He said, "Christian."

 

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He said, "Protestant."

 

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He said, "Baptist!"

 

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He said, "Baptist Church of GOD!"

 

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He said,"Reformed Baptist Church of GOD!"

 

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He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of GOD, reformation of 1915!"

 

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-- Emo Phillips