It’s nice of Meteor Blades to remind us that John “The Walrus” Bolton is a top foreign policy adviser to the Mitt Romney campaign and that he is positively rooting for U.S. diplomacy with Iran to fail so that someone can bomb their nuclear facilities. It reminds me of the scene in Godfather 3 when Al Pacino’s character says, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” The idea there was that Michael Corleone was trying to turn his vast criminal enterprise into a law-abiding legitimate business conglomerate. And then he discovered that he needed to go all gangsta on some people. That’s roughly how I feel about how Obama has been doing the job of cleaning up after Bush. And that’s how I’ll feel if Obama’s job is interrupted so that Romney can immerse us in another decade or more of war in the Middle East.
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This is when Hillary’s team can make a difference by walking the whole issue back. The result needed is normalization of relations between the US and Iran. If she wants a place in history, there is no better way than preventing John Bolton from ever influencing foreign policy again.
Nice thought, but: there is absolutely nothing HRC or Obama can commit to between now and November that can’t be repudiated by Team Romney if they win the WH, especially if (as is likely if they win) they also control both houses of Congress. And the Iranians have already voiced exactly that concern; they’re not stupid. It mitigates against their making a deal before November for several reasons: the cost to their security of any concessions; their domestic political cost of making any concessions; and their quite reasonably fear that if Obama makes a deal with them before November, it will work against him in the campaign.
So this happened. A real snark fest.
Mitt’s additions are going to block a neighbor’s view – I guess rMoney can buy one’s neighbor’s view. he’s having trouble with the permits and maybe going to relocate to his bff’s house instead. But funniest line in the article is what the secret service guy said when the neighbor asked [after helping the secret service guy with their recycling] if ss guy would polish his car – you’ll be fourth in line after Mrs. Romney, who keeps asking when are you going to do my car. very nice!
And what is Netanyahu wants a war? Has the U.S. shown they’ll stand up to that asshat?
And we need the IAEA to be satisfied that Iran is being transparent and abiding by the NPT. Don’t forget that.
You’re conveniently forgetting: nobody stands up to Israel. not bush, not Obama, not congress– nobody.
In fact, Israel has more or less destroyed the ME peace process. Note the recent utter silence from Obama, Biden, HR Clinton, etc., on this matter. it’s DOA.
Israel is driving what happens, not U.S. “foreign policy”. and BTW, this sort of “foreign policy” costs us billions; we the sappy taxpayers get nothing in return. ZERO
When Israel decides to attack Iran’s nuke facilities, they will “secretly” have the cooperation/support from the U.S. military.
I’m glad Obama is walking our country away from war in the Middle East. By conducting a computer virus attack against Iran, by blowing up innocent people in Yemen, and by supporting almost everything Israel does, he is guaranteeing peace in the region.
It reminds me of the scene in Godfather 3 when Al Pacino’s character says, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
This would be true, if John Bolton had two highly-successful stints in public service before this.
Instead, this latest scene is like the Godfather 3, if that movie had been preceded by the Godfather 3 Part 1 and The Godfather 3 Part 2.
Willard is stocked with neo-cons that want War with Iran. It’s obvious.