John Bolton: Abandon Mideast peace push

NY Daily News ^ | January 21 2008 | John Bolton

[knighthawk]

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[Sioux-san]

I love Bolton. Everytime I hear him speak or read his words, I am so grateful for his insights. Anyone surprised why he got no respect at the State Dept.

[Laptop_Ron]

I do believe that it’s in the Constitution now that every president, in his final year, must make an empty gesture to solve the Arab/Israeli conflict. It’s the law!

Besides, they may hate him in the Middle East, but they don’t hate him as much as the Democrats here.

[yield 2 the right]

Bolton still getting less than 1% of the GOP votes so far, my bad John Bolton is not running for the WH in 2008...sucks does it not??

[Capt. Tom]

Enjoyed and agree with the article.

I am more pessimistic about Lebanon. It used to be a majority Christian nation not to long ago but is now a majority Muslim nation.

What is helping the Christians hang on is the minority Sunnis are afraid of a majority Shiite takeover of the country.

IMHO As the Christians bail out, it is only a matter of time until Lebanon becomes an Islamic Republic. - Tom

[RC2]

There will never be peace in the middle east in our life time. Even if we pull out, they will fight each other. If Israel doesn’t stand up and confront the 200 rockets that were fired on them, they deserve more. If we had 100, 50, 20, 10 rockets fired on us we would have gone to all out war. Get out of the middle east but let them know that if they threaten us, we will retaliate without warning.

[Sudetenland]

I have been saying the best thing the President could do would be to put Condi into some great sounding special mission which represents no real substance and appoint Bolton special envoy to Iraq.

He's the only one with any horse sense in Washington. He could knock a few heads together in Bagdhad and get that government working.

John Bolton For President!!!!!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Mr. Bolton seems to have completely rejected the plans of the Council.

He’s the only member of the CFR that I have seen that is so outspoken against them at every turn. He seems to truly love his country.

Wonder if they’ll be content to kick him out, or if they’ll demand a greater punishment.

[RightWhale]

Bolton is not in the loop but he is free to sound off like any American.

[reagan_fanatic]

Bolton nails it.

[longtermmemmory]

It seems at teh end of every presidency term we have to endure another lame effort to do the same failed mideast effort and expect a different result.

[Sudetenland]

Got my vote. I'm reading his book Surrender Is Not An Option. Bolton is the straight shooter we need. He's a no BS man who clearly understands how pointless this attempt at peace in the Middle East is.

[Nick Thimmesch]

Bada Ping!

[bvw]

McCain's claim to be a plain-talker has always been flummoxed and negated by his "plain-talking" one thing in one place and "plain-talking" the opposite or near-opposite thing in another place. But when he speaks he sure comes off like a plain-talking man.

Then you have a man like John Bolton. He plain-talks one thing here, and the same thing there. Bolton is the geniuine article and he isn't even an ex-POW.

[freedom4me]

I wish Bolton was our Secretary of State. Condi has followed the path of her mentor, Powell, much to the disgrace of our nation. We need Bolton-like leaders at State and the UN.

[cowdog77]

I wish Bolton was our Secretary of State.”
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He knows what the real situation is and isn’t afraid to express an opinion that may run contrary to the State Department’s.

A true Patriot ~ I’ve always admired him.

[FatherofFive]

I was moved to tears when I saw that statue of Saddam torn down the day our troops rolled into Bagdhad. This is it - finally the start of liberty and freedom in the Middle East.

Five years, 3,800 dead soldiers and a trillion dollars later, I've lost hope. The Muslim Religion of Death will never allow a free society to develop.

[americanophile]

Bolton for Secretary of State!

[Recon Dad]

He is far more likely to be successful in countering Iran’s expanding influence and dealing with other major regional problems than in resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute - yet his pursuit of the former goal is impeded by his policies concerning the latter.

Bush seems to have aimed at the wrong targets most of the the 2nd term. His initial Social Security push was ill conceived and pretty much doomed the entire term. Now he’s pushing Israel into a stupid “land for peace” deal.
The only decent thing he’s done in the last three years was put General Petreius in charge of Iraq.