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Bolton: I had hopes that he might do the right thing for his country, but no. What a combination... (Original Post) brush Feb 2020 OP
bolton is no better than trump. sad to see him geting so much publicity nt msongs Feb 2020 #1
Bolton appears to be in this solely for the money. patphil Feb 2020 #2
Self centered, typical "conservative". nt ooky Feb 2020 #5
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #3
Is he talking about himself? Sanity Claws Feb 2020 #4
Not Boltoh's words, just my thoughts on him. brush Feb 2020 #6
Typical of chickenhawks. sinkingfeeling Feb 2020 #7
Do not buy his book. Goodheart Feb 2020 #8
Yeah, he learned his lesson dalton99a Feb 2020 #9
A gutless wonder Moral Compass Feb 2020 #10

patphil

(6,185 posts)
2. Bolton appears to be in this solely for the money.
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 08:36 PM
Feb 2020

I don't expect him to do the proper thing for the nation, only for himself.

Response to brush (Original post)

Moral Compass

(1,523 posts)
10. A gutless wonder
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 09:30 PM
Feb 2020

This is a term my father used for showboating loudmouths that had no honors and were all talk and no action.

30 years in the Army meant he knew a lot of gutless wonders.

Bolton is the worst I’ve seen since Rumsfeld.

He is the reason we’re where we are with North Korea and was the leading edge of hyper aggressive confrontational non-diplomacy that gave NK, Iran, Libya and others no incentives to sit down at the bargaining table. Pompeo continues to operate that way and we now essentially lost our primary European allies and fanned the hatred of the US in the hearts our enemies.

The US is bully of the world now—unable to claim any moral high ground.

This started with Bolton and other right wing, neoliberal regime change freaks—who are unable to glean from history that NONE of the US forced regime changes were anything but catastrophic. That they thought and think that regime change in NK, Iran, Syria, Venezuela would somehow now create a positive result underscores their ignorance, arrogance, and simple stupidity.

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