John Bolton speaking yesterday:
That’s why he says no option is taken off the table. But it’s also why he has, the President, has reached out President Putin and other leaders in the past couple of days to say, “We’re making a significant step here,” that will be criticized by many of the president’s staunchest supporters here at home. But he’s taking this step to show strength and American leadership and to say he’s willing to do something that may be unpopular even with some of his supporters, to remove all excuses from Iran and its supporters to say, “We went the extra mile. We gave Iran really, this last chance to show that they are serious when they say they don’t want nuclear weapons.” This is put or shut up time for Iran.
The neoconservatives from the A.E.I. and P.N.A.C. came into government saying they wanted to go to war with Iraq and Iran. Their sickest writers like Laurie Mylroie and Michael Ledeen can talk of nothing else. The Administration went to extrordinary lengths to trump up reasons to invade Iraq. The lead up was a phoney U.N. ultimatum. Now they’re doing the exact same thing with Iran. Do they not even hear what we’re saying?
Are they winding up to do it again? Are they that insane?
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