*JOHN BOLTON* is on Japanese TV Live (Right Now) Tearing Into Bush Policy on N. Korea!

TV Asahi, Asahi News Network ^ | 25 November 2007 | AmericanInTokyo

[AmericanInTokyo]

In Tokyo, on Channel 10, Asahi TV (also broadcast nationwide) on popular Sunday morning discussion and news analysis talk show "SUNDAY PROJECT".

It is showing former US Ambassador to the U.N. conservative John Bolton make very strong statements against new Bush Adminstration approach of carrot (and no stick) on North Korea.

They are splicing in footage of mealy mouth pansie State Department types making quisling-ish comments at press conference.

[tarheelswamprat]

re: Ok...he has the right to do this at this time in history. I still think this is traitorous behavior...which makes him a traitor.

A while back Rush Limbaugh popularized the phrase "Words mean things". Unfortunately, nobody seems to know or care what they mean anymore.

Definition: Article III - Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

Bolton is not levying war against the United States, so there's no treason there. Nor is he adhering to our enemies or giving them aid and comfort. He is in fact sounding the warning alarm against our enemies (North Korea) and trying to rally support to confront and defeat them.

The Bush Administration and State Department, on the other hand, ARE actively and insistently giving aid and comfort to our enemy (North Korea) in the form of money, diplomatic perks, and forgiveness of their terrorist activities.

Therefore, by the actual definition of treason found in the Constitution, the treason in this scenario is being committed by our own government.

[SoCalPol]

Just checking back in, I hope to get Bolton’s new book this week. What he is saying about N. Korea is correct.
My dad spent over a year in the Korean War with the 1st Marine Div. Bronze Star & Purple Heart. He knows first hand the N. Koreans are not nice.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Go Bolton!

He should have been the Secretary of State. The guy sees clearly what is going on, and is willing to confront what should be confronted.

It is a shame that he is turned into a kind of policy "ronin." Nicholas Eberstadt disappeared into harmless demographic research of E. Asia, probably after having seen the writing on the wall. However, Bolton refuses to go away and is reminding general public of what is wrong with the current situation.

Good for him.

[cva66snipe]

Therefore, by the actual definition of treason found in the Constitution, the treason in this scenario is being committed by our own government.

It's been going on strong for quite a while too in both parties with China. The technology exchanges and ignoring their wrongs on everything from stealing secrets {those we didn't give or sell to them} to forcing down a U.S. aircraft have gone unaddressed. Several Arabic nations fall under this category also and I'm not talking about Iraq either.

Our leaders ignored the wisdom George Washington left us and have sold out our future for their and their friends short term financial and political gains. There isn't even hardly a pretense they aren't taking us into a one world government or a hemispheric one. Right now the only real honest to goodness dispute the two parties have is over the idea is who's party will govern it. Which political dynasty.

A war has indeed been declared on this nation and it is a political one to destroy it to form a larger one. Their is an attack on the very foundation of our freedoms using scare tactics to sell our freedom and privacy as law abiding citizens for security. The enablers to it commit treason against We The People in a very real sense. Some also choose to ignore it when it's their party doing it. This is true with Dems and GOP.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yep. Mr. Bolton knows the score allright.

I think it is starting right here on FR, but I sincerely hope that this North Korean-Off-The-Terror-List issue will be strongly elevated into the Republican Presidential Primaries. I think guys like Hunter, Tancredo, maybe even Thompson will bring it in there.

It SORELY needs national attention. It is an abject travesty what Bush and Condi are ordering State Department to do, against all good advice and common sense.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sunday Project BUMP!

One of my favorite Sunday news talk shows on TV....

[plenipotentiary]

Bolton does speak the truth. However, politics is the art of the possible. Iran is coming down the track fast. The US will take that one first, then Syria, then the N Koreans.

The N Koreans are being lulled. They are impotent, and their dictator is (hopefully) die-ing

I am repeatedly surprised that people don’t listen to what GWB has said quite openly.

The US will take the Axis of Evil at times and places of the US’s choosing. The State Department are doing what they are told. Make nice with Kim till the time is right.

[flat]

AND THEN THERE’S THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzRZbWN31q0&feature=related

[dennisw]

This years new panel of food critics on the Iron Chef

[AmericanInTokyo]

That is not the prevailing analysis here out in Asia, unfortunately. And I have to agree.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good point, tarheelswamprat. It is unfortunate, but it is true.

Right now, if you asked someone to distinguish between the North Korean policy of the Clinton Administration in 1999 with the North Korean policy of the Bush Administration of 2007, they could not in all likelihood, do it.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Fill us in on the book when you get it.

Yes, the North Koreans are not to be trusted in any kind of diplomatic deal.

Would you trust a repeated child rapist to be your babysitter on a Friday night? "Trust" can only go so far with people.

Our State Department are fools.

[cgbg]

The central issue, IMO, is that S. Korea's government is anti-US and in the past openly supported demonstrations demanding the US get out of S. Korea. As far as I'm concerned, we should pull our troops out of S. Korea and give them what they want. Let the South Koreans deal with the Chi-pet dictator's army when they come swarming south. This would provide a wonderful foreign relations "teaching moment" for a whole lot of ungrateful countries in the world: bad mouth the US, get what you want, and the ramifications that go with it.

The problem is that _our_ policies towards North Korea have been on and off stupid for the last several administrations.

Negotiating with pathological liars is not a viable national security policy.

We have allowed the North Koreans to build up missiles near their border. We have allowed them to build up a nuclear capacity and hide it in tunnels that ring the countryside.

One reason South Korea wants to cut a deal is that they don't trust us. Who can blame them?--I don't trust the State Department or any recent administration to get the Korean policy right. W has gone from "axis of evil" to "lets negotiate".

Japan has every reason to mock our Korea policy.

I just don't see it getting any better with a new administration.

Our only hope is that North Korea collapses on its own despite our stupid "diplomacy" and other assorted bungles.

[AmericanInTokyo]

We were on the right path for awhile, in strangulating them, and they were in fact feeling it (for awhile)--and I for one was a big supporter here on FR of the President in that regard.

Then the Madeline Albright approach of appeasement fully kicked in over at State, all the way up to Condi (who for some reason signed off on it), and now it has gone all the way up to the Oval Office and HE has placed his chop on it.

Yep. We are up to our neck in this sh*t now, for sure.

[AmericanInTokyo]

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE), the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement today after North Korea agreed at the Six Party talks in Beijing to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs, to return to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, and to accept International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in exchange for energy aid, economic cooperation, and security assurances: "The Bush administration was right to reverse course on North Korea and stop letting ideology get in the way of results. This is evidence that hard-headed engagement offers a greater hope of reining in the North's dangerous nuclear ambitions than the policy paralysis of the past several years."

[Guenevere]

bttt

[toddlintown]

You have to be joking.

[bannie]

You're correct. I appologize, and I will be more careful with my word usage.

Word meanings do evolve--resulting in definition alterations. You are correct, however, regarding your call on the word "traitor."

Consider my knuckles properly-rapped.

[Captain Kirk]

No problem, my fellow officer and gentleman.

[Grimmy]

No worries.

Just remember, keep your shield up but not so high that you can’t see over it. Keep your spear level and steady. Hold your place in the shield wall at all costs and trust the folk beside you.