Bolton:"The Bush administration does not recognize the urgency of the hour"
What distant call has the man who quoted Jefferson about freedom being god's gift to humanity channeled?
Or has this administration concluded that no political support for the apparently compulsory actions required to stop Iran is to be had unless some terrible event occurs?
Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel
Sanctions and diplomacy have failed and it may be too late for internal opposition to oust the Islamist regime, leaving only military intervention to stop Iran's drive to nuclear weapons, the US's former ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Worse still, according to Ambassador Bolton, the Bush administration does not recognize the urgency of the hour and that the options are now limited to only the possibility of regime change from within or a last-resort military intervention, and it is still clinging to the dangerous and misguided belief that sanctions can be effective.
As a consequence, Bolton said he was "very worried" about the well-being of Israel. If he were in Israel's predicament, he said, "I'd be pushing the US very hard. I am pushing the US [administration] very hard, from the outside, in Washington."
It may be the Iranian plan to turn Israel into a failed experiment via a Capone-ian threat racket, squelching immigration and by constantly calling for the extinction of the PEOPLE as well as the land by themselves and their henchmen, but imagine if we, several times a year called for the wiping out of Iran and persians since they really have usurped the homes of the Achaemenids, Baluchis and Kurds? Can you just hear the din?
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