BOLTON: Obama continues Bush's 2nd term -- badly

Washington Times ^ | 6-10-09 | John R. Bolton

[conservativegamer]

Conservative foreign and national-security policies do not need remaking, rebranding or remessaging. They need not be escorted by prefixes or adjectives, nor do they need "moderating."

Conservative foreign policy is unabashedly pro-American, unashamed of American exceptionalism, unwilling to bend its knee to international organizations, and unapologetic about the need for the fullest range of dominant military capabilities. Its diplomacy is neither unilateralist nor multilateralist, but chooses its strategies, tactics, means and methods based on a hard-headed assessment of U.S. national interests, not on theologies about process. Most especially, conservatives understand that allies are different from adversaries, and that each should be treated accordingly.

[conservativegamer]

Excuse me if this has already been posted. I did four different searches and scrolled around the editorial page for a few minutes looking at everything from today, couldn't find it.

Anyways, this definitely speaks to me. This is why I am a conservative, and I hope, as a functional minority in American politics today, we can start moving back toward this direction in our philosophy.

[snowrip]

Awesome piece.

[rockinqsranch]

Concur with Mr. Bolton’s excellent perspective.

[marron]

I’m a Bolton fan.

And this piece is dead on the money.

[Art in Idaho]

Speaks to me too.
How come we can’t get guys/gals like Bolton to run for office? Can you imagine a House and Senate full of Boltons and Sarahs doing only what the federal government is supposed to do, “Provide for the National Defense”. Imagine a house and senate full of Boltons and Sarahs cutting this program and that, getting rid of this bureaucracy and that, repealing this law and that. Imagine. . .

[BARLF]

mark

[hosepipe]

Looks like both Bush and Obama are progressives..
The CLintoons are too... but for profit..

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

Very concentrated in thoughts, brilliant article, practically un-excerptable. A must-read defense of conservative foreign and national-security policies .

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[BufordP]

Bill Gertz interview on Hannity and Colmes Gertz: Well he casts himself as a compassionate conservative and I argue that he's neither. That his administration is neither. He's done tremendous damage to the conservative movement...

[RhoTheta]

Thanks for the review. I have the book on hold at my local library.

Glenn Beck has been making a point of the fact that both parties are progressive. Neither are conservative. Someone else made the point that the reason the bureaucracy of government is so [progressive] is that the [progressives] believe in big government, thus tend to make a career of it, while conservatives tend to want to serve, then return to private life.