Friday, May 27, 2005
Bolton will be bad news
While it appears that Senate Democrats have succeeded in delaying the vote on John Bolton for UN Ambassador at least another week, it is equally certain that barring the emergence of spinal fortitude among Senate Republicans Bolton is in. What this nation does not need, and after 4 plus years of the Bush Presidency cannot afford, is to continue to run roughshod over the other nations of the globe. And there is nothing in the stack of stuff on Bolton, both the bad brought forward by the Democrats and the praises sung in spinning the negatives as positives by the Republicans, which indicates that he will play well with other countries. Bolton will be there (UN) to carryout the wishes of one cabal and mightily duped President.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president, warned that America ought not to go “abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Today’s foreign policy, and one advocated by John Bolton, is just such an arrogant search and destroy mission for “monsters.” “You are either with us, or you are against us” takes on a more seriously ominous tone when the supporting cast is able to twist facts to make the case of who is and who is not “with us.”
And yet it must be said that when there is a monster threatening the nation America should act. Which adds an exclamation point to the warnings about John Bolton and the Bush administrations plans for America’s foreign policy. Where is the hue and cry for the head of Osama? Where are the diligent efforts by Bolton and his supporters to find a true monster? That Osama is not number one on our list is the clearest indicator of all that the administration’s foreign policy is all smoke and mirrors.
If Republicans were supporting a nation instead of a man John Bolton’s nomination would be voted down, and the President would be feeling serious heat to “reform” his foreign policy. Ten years from now “conservatives” will realize how badly served they have been by this President.
John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president, warned that America ought not to go “abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” Today’s foreign policy, and one advocated by John Bolton, is just such an arrogant search and destroy mission for “monsters.” “You are either with us, or you are against us” takes on a more seriously ominous tone when the supporting cast is able to twist facts to make the case of who is and who is not “with us.”
And yet it must be said that when there is a monster threatening the nation America should act. Which adds an exclamation point to the warnings about John Bolton and the Bush administrations plans for America’s foreign policy. Where is the hue and cry for the head of Osama? Where are the diligent efforts by Bolton and his supporters to find a true monster? That Osama is not number one on our list is the clearest indicator of all that the administration’s foreign policy is all smoke and mirrors.
If Republicans were supporting a nation instead of a man John Bolton’s nomination would be voted down, and the President would be feeling serious heat to “reform” his foreign policy. Ten years from now “conservatives” will realize how badly served they have been by this President.
# posted by Glenn R. Jackson @ 1:31 PM 
