John Bolton's Default Setting: When In Doubt, Bomb Iran

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/research/201202290019

February 29, 2012 9:05 pm ET — 9 Comments

Fox News contributor and former Bush administration official John Bolton has used Fox News and print media to relentlessly push for first-strike military interventions in Iran. His advocacy of force is only the latest attempt by Bolton to push for the United States to engage in military operations against various countries around the world.

Bolton Has Tirelessly Advocated Military Strikes On Iran For Years

Bolton In February 2012: "I Don't Think It's In Our Interest To Stay Out" Of A War Between Israel And Iran. From the February 3 edition of Fox News' America Live:

BOLTON: Well, I don't think we will be able to stay out, and I don't think it's in our interest to stay out. Look, the use of military force against the Iranian program is a decidedly unattractive option, there's no doubt about it. It's risky, it has potentially significant consequences. But the choice that we face is not between life as it is today compared to life after an Israeli military strike. It's life after that strike, compared to an Iran with nuclear weapons.

So if you don't like Iran as the central banker of international terrorism, prepared to conduct terrorist operations on American soil, threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, engaging in terrorist activity worldwide, imagine how much worse it gets once they get nuclear weapons. {Fox News, America Live, 2/3/12, via Media Matters}

[polichick]

1. Maybe he's a dominionist, like so many other Christian zealots on the right...

Maybe he hopes to bring on the end days.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Yosemite Sam never met a war he wasn't willing to have other people fight.

[Owlet]

3. You got that right

"Bolton supported the Vietnam War and enlisted in the Maryland Army National Guard, but did not serve in Vietnam. He wrote in his Yale 25th reunion book "I confess I had no desire to die in a Southeast Asian rice paddy. I considered the war in Vietnam already lost." In an interview, Bolton discussed his comment in the reunion book, explaining that he decided to avoid service in Vietnam because 'by the time I was about to graduate in 1970, it was clear to me that opponents of the Vietnam War had made it certain we could not prevail, and that I had no great interest in going there to have Teddy Kennedy give it back to the people I might die to take it away from.'"

What a dipshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton

[Muskypundit]

4. This Iran war talk is really starting to get to me.

I dont want to fucking go to Iran. Iraq was bad enough.

I honestly cant even talk to people who say we should bomb Iran. Especially the younger soldiers who say it, I just want to slap the shit out of them.