JOHN BOLTON MAKING BELLICOSE THREATS AGAINST IRAN

I see where John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and one of the neo-cons and one of the most bellicose war-mongers, has told a British audience that the U.S. has no choice but to strike Iran militarily.

Ros Taylor reports in The Guardian:

"John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, told Tory delegates today that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country."

Bolton goes on to say that Americans, whether Republicans or Democrats, are not inclined to neogtiate and use diplomacy. Writes Taylor:

"There is too much of a view in Europe that you have passed beyond history," Mr Bolton told delegates. "That everything can be worked out by negotiation ... Democrats or Republicans, we [Americans] don't see it that way."

My response to Bolton is, how can you speak for anyone but yourself? You are one of the foremost proponents of bombing Iran, or North Korea, or Iraq. The only way you think U.S. foreign relations can be resolved is raining down cruise missiles on the peoples, countries and governments that don't agree with you.

Well there are other Americans besides yourself who believe war is not the answer. We just need to get past the Bush era (another 16months) before we can escape the danger and catastrophe that your militarism and bellicosity would bring us.