SHOW: FOX HANNITY & CO 9:00 PM EST
November 7, 2007 Wednesday
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NEWS; Domestic
1430 words
Former U.N. Ambassador: Surrender Not an Option
Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes
John Bolton
BOLTON: Well, I think there’s a cultural problem at the State Department that’s been developing for decades. And it does not lead to effective advocacy on behalf of the United States. It’s something we really need to correct. And I hope the book explains it.
A senior career official at State used to say, “If the American people knew how we conducted foreign policy they’d be after us with pitchforks.”
HANNITY: Well, there really — one of the things you and I have discussed before is the United States pays, what, 20-some odd percent of the bill of the United Nations.
BOLTON: Right.
HANNITY: We pay 27 percent of peacekeeping costs.
BOLTON: Right.
HANNITY: And yet, this is — you even discuss, this is a — a body has been traditionally anti-American. And in many ways, I would argue, anti-Semitic.
BOLTON: Right. Very much so. And I think one of the reasons is that entitlement mentality that develops in New York because they know they’re going to get 22 percent of the budget reduces our influence. I think we should move to voluntary contributions, where the U.S. pays for what it wants and insists that it gets what it pays for.
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And the thought and the idea of the liberal Democrats that we would act militarily is just off the table. Is this modern day appeasement? Is this, you know, appeasement in our time, chamberlain surrender, in your mind?
BOLTON: I think it’s very close to it. And this is a classic case, those two countries, Iran and North Korea, where the State Department can’t think of anything else to do. And why State is so hostile to Republican administrations. That’s why this is a problem we have to correct.
But on Iraq and North Korea, we are kidding ourselves if we think either of those countries will ever voluntarily give up nuclear weapons.
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BOLTON: Let me ask you a question. Do you think Kim Jong-Il will follow through this time on his commitment to give up nuclear weapons?
COLMES: Of course, I can’t answer that question. I don’t know.
BOLTON: The way he hasn’t — the way he hasn’t followed through on his previous four commitments to give up nuclear weapons. That’s why this Israeli raid on September the 6th into Syria is so important. The administration is sitting on the information. It’s causing a lot of discontent among Republicans.
We need to know whether North Korea was cloning part of its nuclear facility with the Syrians, because that would show they’ve been violating the February agreement.
Monday morning Bolton bump.