John Bolton in his heyday

For most people, the use of nuclear weapons is probably not even a matter for debate. But there’s another opinion. Its current champion, in the media at least, is John Bolton, George W. Bush’s former ambassador to the UN.

I would guess that, for most people, the use of nuclear weapons is not even a matter for debate. Indeed, since the last actively deployed nuclear weapon showed its true colours 64 years ago, even the most belligerent of world leaders have yielded to a saner instinct and kept their fingers off the button, to few complaints.

But there’s another opinion. Its current champion, in the media at least, is John Bolton, George W. Bush’s one-time pick as Ambassador to the United Nations. In a conference ironically entitled “Ensuring Peace”, Bolton argued that the only sure way to stopping a nuclear first strike is – to initiate a nuclear first strike.

“So we’re at a very unhappy point — a very unhappy point — where unless Israel is prepared to use nuclear weapons against Iran’s program, Iran will have nuclear weapons in the very near future.”

I would expect something a bit more intelligent from a former UN ambassador. I’m not posting this to bash Republicans, but does this guy still have influence over GOP foreign policy? He’s clearly barking.



  1. Phydeau says:

    The Iranians are not insane, much as you wingnuts would like to believe it. You’re the ones who are insane, clamoring to use nukes. Batshit crazy.

  2. Mr. Fusion says:

    It just came to me how so many of the right wing nuts approach this as if it was a video game. They aren’t lives they are discussing, they are just animations showing up as electrons. If you lose, so what. Just start a new game.

    The problem is that it isn’t a game.

    Kids today, same juvenile immaturity.



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