Bolton on Iran
Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 2:24 PM.
John Bolton once again speaks sanity and reason in this article from the Jerusalem Post (via Melanie Phillips):
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…Yup, only the military option can really help in a case like this, and not "diplomacy". That's why it's time now to start readying the armies of democratic nations to deal with this nuclear threat looming from Iran. And most important of all, if you ask me, is to depose of Islam within Iran too.
‘The current approach of the Europeans and the Americans is not just doomed to failure, but dangerous,’ he said. ‘Dealing with [the Iranians] just gives them what they want, which is more time… We have fiddled away four years, in which Europe tried to persuade Iran to give up voluntarily,’ he complained. ‘Iran in those four years mastered uranium conversion from solid to gas and now enrichment to weapons grade… We lost four years to feckless European diplomacy and our options are very limited.’
Labels: islam, Israel, jihad, terrorism, war on terror
