Posted on 04/06/2015 2:19:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Cruz, Walker, Kirk and—especially—Bolton are furious at the world. Their solution: Declare war on it.
At the end of a week when many paused to reflect during Passover and Easter ceremonies, a question with no real answer seemed to crash into our culture with all the subtlety of a marching band in a funeral parlor: Why do so many Republicans seem so angry all the time at so much around us?
The fury of some like Ted Cruz is understandable. It’s fueled by his massive ego and outsized ambition along with his personal belief that he is so smart and the rest of us are so pedestrian that he can manipulate opinion to win the Republican nomination for president with the support of the mentally ill wing of his party.
“A real president,” Cruz the bombardier said last week, “would stand up and say on the world stage: Under no circumstances will Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran will either stop or we will stop them.”
Then there is the minor league Cruz, the tough talking, totally in-over-his-head governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, who is running to crack down on the salaries of teachers, cops and firefighters everywhere. Oh, he’ll also teach Iran a good lesson by throwing any deal out the window no matter what other countries might think. Imagine Scotty informing Angela Merkel of his decision while he wears his Cheese-Head Hat.
There are so many others too. There’s the kid who started the pen pal club with the ayatollah, Tom Cotton. There’s the mental midget from Illinois, Mark Kirk, who went right to the basement for his best thought on Iran, claiming that England got a better deal from Hitler than the U.S. got from Teheran. Kirk, not a history major.
But my personal favorite? In this corner, from Baltimore, wearing the costume of a true warrior, locked and loaded and ready to roll, the former Ambassador to the United Nations, John “Bombs Away” Bolton. He took to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times to declare war on Iran. After all, why waste time!
“The inconvenient truth is that only military action…” Field Marshall Bolton wrote, “can accomplish what is required. Time is terribly short, but a strike can still succeed.”
Bolton, of course, is one of the Mensa members who told George W. Bush that it would be swell to go to war in Iraq. Twelve years later things are really going well there.
At least Bolton knows war on a first hand basis. At age 18 he was in South Vietnam where….OH, I’M SORRY…MY MISTAKE…that was another Bolton. That was Dennis Bolton from Bedford, Ind., born two weeks before John Bolton was born in Baltimore in November 1968. Two different young men with two different tales to tell.
Dennis Bolton went to Vietnam. John Bolton who went to Yale. Dennis Bolton was killed near DaNang on April 19, 1967 where he served with the Marines while John Bolton finished his freshman year at New Haven.
In 1967, Bedford had a population of about 13,000. It’s a nice small town where Gene Hackman could have filmed ‘Hoosiers’, one of the great sports films ever. Ten young men from Bedford were killed in Vietnam.
Indiana, of course, is the state where Mike Pence and Republicans in the state legislature spent the week clowning it up over their lost fight to make it harder for some Americans simply to be happy. Make no mistake about it, their war was against same sex marriage and they suffered a TKO when the country turned against them in the snap of a finger, an overnight knock-out delivered with stunning speed. But I digress.
In 1967, Baltimore had a population of about 930,000. It’s a tough town with a lot of different neighborhoods, some dangerous, many working class where Barry Levinson hadn’t made “Diner” yet and HBO hadn’t given us the gift that is “The Wire.” Four hundred and seventeen residents of Baltimore were killed in Vietnam.
Dennis Bolton’s name is on the wall of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. John Bolton’s name was on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times as well as on the lips of some angry, fevered lunatics whose principal policy option is to fight rather than talk.
Obviously, Bolton never made it to Vietnam. He joined the Maryland National Guard to avoid going to Vietnam and, hey, good for him. At least he served.
Of course, he blamed his absence from combat on the politics of the time. On liberals like Ted Kennedy and others, claiming they had already lost the war by the time he was ready to take on the North Vietnamese Army. I guess that explains the itch, the unfulfilled need, the frustration that guys like Bolton have lived with across the decades.
And today, "Bombs Away" Bolton still has a strong desire to light it up. And according to some pundits he's even considering a run for president. Obviously his platform will remain as unchanged as his thinking: Different time, different dangers, different countries but same selfish solution: Send someone else’s kids to fight and die while Bolton and others play with a lit fuse in a world more dangerous than dynamite.
Barnacle is a useless animal on the hull of a boat...and Mike is a useless idiot that waste paper...
Much of the Left is deathly afraid of anything manly and can't figure out how loving Jesus and manliness seem to overlap. It drives them nuts and sets off the inner alarm bells that something is amiss, but they keep suppressing it.
If having our soldiers getting blown up by IDE's, and wasting a trillion dollars on a nation building exercise that failed miserably is doing good. There was no goal. There was no winning. Just a perpetual meat grinder.
Hey Beast...how would you feel if abortion was banned, if everyone had to have gun training and a license, if gay marriage was banned, if prayer was a mandated way of stating the day in our schools, if Isreal was fully supported and Iran told to stop the nuclear activity or else...how would you feel? Well that’s how we feel...you jam this unconstitutional crap down our throats and expect us to like it?
Sounds like an angry, hateful writer.
Mike Barnicle is still the same idiot he always was, with the IQ and attractiveness of a genuine barnacle.
Mike Barnicle, isn’t he the Go’fer over at the ratings sewer called MSNBC, where he steps & fetches Mika’s coffee.
Cruz has a “massive ego” and Walker is “in over his
head”.
Every time I see some mouth breathing, bedwetting liberal
making such comments I am reminded of a certain Dem’Rat
politician who actually exemplifies both descriptions.
My best response to this article is to not read it.
So, that’s what I did (didn’t) do.
And I’m happy about it. Moving on.
This guy was fired from the Boston Globe for making up the facts and narratives of his news stories.
Maybe their angry because Progressives/Pinko Commies are destroying the country.
In a normal world, anyone who was fired from the Boston Globe for plagiarism would slink away in shame, never to be heard from again.
Crotch Barnicles? That sounds painful.
Sounds worse than crabs.
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