OOOOOOOH!!! Yosemite Sam's mad now!!!

[backscatter712]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/05/bolton-decries-release-of_n_251697.html#postComment

Euna Lee and Laura Ling are safe at home and in the warm embrace of loved ones and it's hard to feel bad about this. But, since Bill Clinton has a hand in their release, someone's got to step up and naysay the effort, and predictably, that task has fallen to former UN ambassador and noted rage-walrus John Bolton, who says the "Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama." Of course, holding Lee and Ling as prisoners was also a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, insofar as the ravings of a crackpot rogue nations can be held to be significant. If Kim Jong Il bakes a mediocre angel food cake today, North Korea will claim they've achieved a significant propaganda victory.

Bolton, nevertheless, doesn't see it this way:

While the United States is properly concerned whenever its citizens are abused or held hostage, efforts to protect them should not create potentially greater risks for other Americans in the future. Yet that is exactly the consequence of visits by former presidents or other dignitaries as a form of political ransom to obtain their release. Iran and other autocracies are presumably closely watching the scenario in North Korea. With three American hikers freshly in Tehran's captivity, will Clinton be packing his bags again for another act of obeisance? And, looking ahead, what American hostages will not be sufficiently important to merit the presidential treatment? What about Roxana Saberi and other Americans previously held in Tehran? What was it about them that made them unworthy of a presidential visit? These are the consequences of poorly thought-out gesture politics, however well-intentioned or compassionately motivated. Indeed, the release of the two reporters -- welcome news -- doesn't mitigate the future risks entailed.

Right! Over the past decade, the only risks Americans have faced have come because of the misguided efforts to obtain the release of captive journalists. And clearly, we should probably lock ourselves in intense speculation over how much of the Sudetenland Clinton ceded to Pyongyang. What an excellent case Bolton has made here! It helps of course, to ignore the hollow grandstanding that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad indulged in over Roxana Saberi, an actual bonafide stab at securing a propaganda victory.

Right! Over the past decade, the only risks Americans have faced have come because of the misguided efforts to obtain the release of captive journalists. And clearly, we should probably lock ourselves in intense speculation over how much of the Sudetenland Clinton ceded to Pyongyang. What an excellent case Bolton has made here! It helps of course, to ignore the hollow grandstanding that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad indulged in over Roxana Saberi, an actual bonafide stab at securing a propaganda victory.

[TexasObserver]

1. recommend

[Winterblues]

2. MSM should be asked why is this man with ZERO Credibility even on the airwaves.

He was literally kicked out of the UN for his belligerence and his complete lack of credibility. Why is he allowed to spew his garbage?

[Jade Fox]

3. The Right hates anything that works......

It upsets their world view that the only thing you can do is keep guns pointed at everyone's head.:eyes:

[samsingh]

13. true

[eleny]

4. Just another case of....

[SIMPLYB1980]

7. I've always wondered if that's Pat Buchanan's face?

It sure does capture his bitterness well.

[backscatter712]

9. Nah, John Bolton will always be Yosemite Sam.

He's got the bad temper and the big moustache.

[foxfeet]

11. At least the real Yosimite Sam combed the dried snot and food out of his moustache.

[SIMPLYB1980]

14. I was talking about the sour grapes pic, and

Bolton is defiantly Yosemite Sam.

[Arkana]

5. Liberals. I hates liberals.

If'n there's anythin' I hates more than a liberal, it's TWO liberals.

[gratuitous]

6. Yes, a diplomatic success doesn't mitigate future risks

Holy smokes, how does this guy even perform the heroic act of continued respiration? There are so many unknown and unforeseen risks associated with breathing that it’s probably better to stop breathing altogether, Mr. Bolton! After all, when we invade countries without provocation or cause, there are no unforeseen risks there. We know for a fact that it will result inevitably in a massive clusterfuck, and that’s sooo reassuring to the likes of Mr. Bolton.

Seriously and no shit, why is this man polluting the airwaves? Why is he being asked about this episode when he so clearly has nothing whatsoever to contribute to the conversation?

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Bolton just wants another dose of war. He's addicted and doesn't care if it's Iran or NK.

[csziggy]

10. Josh needs to learn to play video games as an outlet for all his aggression!

And quit trying to start wars in the real world.

[samsingh]

12. bolten should be in prison

[EC]

15. F him

I'm sure sensible people will hear this and think he's as crazy as the rest of the nuts on the right...we can marginalize them all...



They made people think "liberal" was a dirty word, well lets see how they like being called nuts...

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Wally Walrus was interviewed on NPR. I had to switch stations.

I know you're supposed to "know your enemy", and "let him rave, that men may know him mad", and hear your opponents out long enough to analyze their errors and form a counterargument, but -- Jeebuz Hussein F***ing Keerist, this blowhard never deserved to be on the air, EVER. If he hadn't been nominated to infiltrate and sabotage the UN by the most UN-hating occupant* of the Oval Office EVER, no one would ever have heard a word he had to say. And it should have stayed that way.








*He only occupied it, he never filled it.

[DCKit]

17. Stunning, just stunning.

With leaders like Bolton and Rush, you can tell the Republic party is going places. Just not where they would like to believe.