Posted on 12/31/2008 12:16:02 AM PST by bruinbirdman
COLMES: What should happen next?
JOHN BOLTON: Well, I think this depends on what the government of Israel wants to do. I must say, I have flashbacks to the summer of 2006. The Israeli rhetoric is pretty intense. Defense Minister Ehud Barak saying this is going to be a fight to the death with Hamas. Much as government leaders in 2006 said they were going to eliminate Hezbollah. It's a risky proposition for Israel not to carry through on that because Hezbollah in the view of many emerged as the victim in that war simply by surviving, and Hamas might well do the same thing here.
COLMES: Is Israel overreacting?
BOLTON: No, I don't think so. I think Israel has a perfectly legitimate right of self-defense. Hamas has been firing rockets from the Gaza Strip for years, even during a so called cease-fire that lasted six months until Hamas itself said they weren't going to carry it on. And when you have a right of self-defense, it's not simply a tit-for-tat right of self-defense, it's a right to eliminate the threat. If that's what Israel is in fact choosing to do, I think they're perfectly legitimate in so doing.
BOLTON: Well, I think it's going to be a very difficult goal, but having set that as the bar, Israel is going to be judged by whether they achieve it or not. That's why you have to fit the rhetoric to the action. It would have been one thing for Israel to say this is going to be a retaliatory raid and it's going to be limited and defined, and then do that, that's one thing. But when you say you're going to eliminate Hamas, I think you're prepared to do it, or if you're not, you have to accept the
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“COLMES: Is Israel overreacting?”
Don’t worry Colmes, should the terrorists start to bomb your neighborhood, I will do all that I can to keep folks from overreacting. Heck, I’ll likely just go have a piece of apple pie.
Bolton - the best SoS that the US didn’t get!
Isn’t today (12/31)Colmes’ last day with Hannity? I will be sooo glad when he’s gone. He’s worthless, IMO. He’s just another whiny, liberal, bedwetter.
Anyone else find it amusing that of Bolton, Colmes and Lowry, it is the leftist, ho has a problem with Israel’s legitimate defense who is Jewish?
Any poop on a replacement?
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I’ll be glad he’s gone, the traitor makes me ill. Of course Beckelllll make me mad enough to want to break his nose. I am very glad that I don’t live near any of these freaks... I could get into trouble. LOL
Here we are with a really dangerous situation and Colmes is trying to score points for the lefties.
Can you get any more stupid?
That makes 2 of us.
I saw the segment. Thanks for posting.
Good thread. Thanks to all posters.
No, I haven’t heard anything about who might replace him. All I know is that I will never have to listen to his hyper, whiny voice again. Yea!!!! ;o)
Is Beckel going to take Alan's place? He's a lot better than he was before. Sometimes he makes sense, and that's scary. lol..
I hear you about living close to where they are. I would be in trouble too. lol..
” it is the leftist, ho”
You don’t need that comma!
Iran also has to consider the 150,000 troops next door in Iraq. There simply won't be a better time to take them down.
[He’s a lot better than he was before. Sometimes he makes sense]
That’s true but if he replaces Colmes, he will be required to represent the left views and will not be as ‘moderate’ as he is in his current job on Fox.
Fair and Balanced, don’t you know.
There isn’t going to be a replacement. Hannity’s going to have a one man show, like O’Reilly. That’s what I heard.
I meant to write “it is the leftist, who”
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