Posted on 11/18/2016 1:17:08 PM PST by conservative98
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday that he still believes the only real solution for Iran is “regime change.”
“The only longterm solution is regime change in Tehran,” said Bolton. “The ayatollahs are the principal threat to international peace and security and the Middle East.”
Bolton continued, “Their ouster won’t bring sweetness and light to the region, that’s for sure, but it will eliminate the principal threat.”
“I think the people of Iran would long for a new regime. I think we saw that in the summer of 2009 with the protests against the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,” said Bolton.
He also recalled seeing Iranians holding up posters for television cameras at the time, saying, “Are you with us or against us?” Bolton felt Obama reacted too slowly, if at all, to the opportunity, preferring instead to settle for a controversial nuclear deal.
Bolton was careful not to discuss any potential role in a Trump administration or take on recent criticism from Sen. Rand Paul. He did, however, take up the debate about interventionism in foreign policy. “You hear a lot of debate about interventionism versus non-interventionism. I find that debate very unproductive,” he said. “To me,” continued Bolton, “it’s like saying, ‘Do you prefer a spoon or a knife?’ The immediate next question is, ‘For what?'”
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Dr. Rand Paul @RandPaul 5h5 hours ago
We have to learn from history, regime change hasn't worked. John Bolton is the wrong choice for America.
Obama flipped them the bird, sided with the mullahs. We may never know how many suffered and died as a result.
Bolton is a neo-con bomb first ask questions later imperialist. His views are representative of the thinking that has resulted in a badly destabilized Middle East. That man needs to be kept far far away from any position of influence in Trump’s administration.
Neocons never learn. NO TO JOHN BOLTON!
Bolton not in charge!
Didn’t he say Iraqis would welcome us a liberators and embrace liberty for all?
Regime change?
I like Bolton’s bluntness and agree with him in many areas.
But what kind of level of stupidity does it take to continue to promote ‘regime change’ in the ME?
You cannot have successful regime change without culture compatibility at some critical level.
The only way to have successful culture change in Iran would involve killing at least half the male population. I’m good with that but few are.
Have we learned nothing from Carter, Bush, Obama?
The ideologue changes reality to fit his theories, not the other way around.
You cannot give freedom to a people. They have to want it first and do their damndest to earn it.
If the Iranian people want regime change, they will have to do it themselves.
We should have learned from Iraq that it does not work well.
Libya proved it conclusively.
We should be out of the regime change business.
"Dr. Rand Paul @RandPaul 5h5 hours ago We have to learn from history, regime change hasn't worked. John Bolton is the wrong choice for America."
NO, he's bloody wrong!
Using any simple form of logic applied to this 'wisdom' Hitler would have ruled until he was tired of oppressing the Jews, the Polish ad infinitum...
FOOL!
I remember. There are many ways we can help them without Troops. Trump has always praised The Persians as Good deal makers.
Maybe they like Truml also. Maybe there tired of A** holes messing up thiercoungry also.
Imagine a regime change in Iran that no longer Sponsered terror. Also a chess piece with the Russians. Very Interesting indeed.
That’s what the neo gang said about Iraq. How did that turn out?
“We should be out of the regime change business.”
Amen.
Forever.
The new regime would likely be totalitarian too.
Rand Paul is an -—.
Before the “Arab Spring” engulfed the Middle East, there were street demonstrations and a revolt in the streets in Iran back in 2009.
The similar MO has led me to believe the same forces behind the Arab Spring, the Ukraine coup in 2014 etc. etc. were behind the street protests.
It was in the interests of the Neocon-Saudi-Qatari-Israel Lobby Axis.
These folks allowed the Iran Nuclear Deal to go through in the end pretending to oppose it but through Bob Corker raising the threshold to stop the deal to 2/3 of the Senate and sealing Obama’s deal they protest loudly against.
This guy would be a disaster as SOS. Keep him far from it please President Elect. He’s a special kind of war monger
How about noooo!
Of course, since then who knows what the mullahs have done to their dissidents, but if there is still a large enough number who are willing to challenge their government, and they perhaps feel confident enough in the support of President Trump to take another shot at it, we had better back them (including covertly supplying arms, if necessary). Iran is not Arab, but rather Persian, and their attitudes toward the west (when not under the boot of the radical Islamists) are generally friendly.
We also need to consider that Iran is one of those unusual countries that is not necessarily deterrable by simply having the capability to wipe them out in response to an attack from them. The mullahs believe in the 12th imam and this notion that they must bring fire and chaos upon the world so that the mahdi (really a picture of the antichrist) can return. They will happily launch nuclear attacks on Israel and the U.S. if they obtain the capability, even knowing we would retaliate, because they think the ensuing chaos is necessary to complete their insane vision. Countries like that cannot be negotiated with (as we have certainly now witnessed), they cannot be simply deterred, and they dare not be ignored in cases where they are actively seeking WMD, such as nuclear arms.
Just read up on the EMP threat posed by a nuclear Iran. It will (and should) give you nightmares. That type of threat MUST be stopped using any means necessary. The form such action ultimately takes is open to discussion, of course, but our best chance to avoid a military solution is to support (and probably covertly promote) regime change in Iran. Short of that, there will be no other option but military action, unless we just want to sit idly by waiting for the lights to go out one night.
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