John Bolton: Letter to the next president - New England Patriots Forums

***IcyPatriot*** · 11-05-2008, 06:22 PM

Interesting read:

John Bolton: Letter to the next president - Telegraph

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Although President Bush tried to make this his mantra, his Administration was plagued in its first term by incoherence in national security decision making. Crisp decisions were not made, strong differences of opinion among Cabinet Secretaries were not resolved, and policy too often oscillated between conflicting options with no consistency or direction. Ironically, the Bush Administration’s second term erred in the opposite direction, almost eliminating differences in advice to the President until there was really only one voice in his ear at critical points. You must avoid both pitfalls, and you must make that clear immediately. You must resolve disagreements among your advisers, and not allow drift, and you must insist on discipline once you make a decision. .

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America’s Image

Do not let global “public opinion” about the United States, from Albania to Zimbabwe, dissuade you from doing what you think is right for America. Your job is to defend and advance our interests and values, a task which invariably will displease our adversaries, and even many of our friends, especially those who wish we were, well, more European in our behaviour and attitudes.

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What we must do, however, is more effectively advocate the policies you will be pursuing. Failure at both the political level in Washington and abroad, and at the level of the career Foreign Service, made the Bush Administration one of the most tongue-tied Presidencies in our history. We should try to shift international public opinion to support our policies, not modify our policies to try to satisfy international public opinion. The State Department will not understand this distinction. You must.

***PressCoverage*** · 11-05-2008, 07:11 PM

John Bolton... among the most unabashed "bomb em all" neocons the world has ever been saddled with...

he'd have fit right in on Hitler's cabinet.

PatriotsReign · 11-05-2008, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by PressCoverage

John Bolton... among the most unabashed "bomb em all" neocons the world has ever been saddled with...

he'd have fit right in on Hitler's cabinet.

Yeah, go ahead and advance America's interests no matter who we fukkc!

What an idiot!

***PressCoverage*** · 11-05-2008, 07:48 PM

i believe he's who the muppet show fashioned Beeker after...

***IcyPatriot*** · 11-05-2008, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by PressCoverage

i believe he's who the muppet show fashioned Beeker after...

that's funny.

Wildo7 · 11-05-2008, 09:05 PM

Translation: in his first term Colin Powell was the only source of moderation amongst Wolfowitz, Rumsfield and Cheney. Then they got rid of him and everyone else and Cheney ran the show exclusively. All of which was completely terrible so I'm in no place to lecture you, especially when I had a history prior to the administration appointment of bullying people into supporting my horrible policies.

***IcyPatriot*** · 11-05-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Wildo7

Translation: in his first term Colin Powell was the only source of moderation amongst Wolfowitz, Rumsfield and Cheney. Then they got rid of him and everyone else and Cheney ran the show exclusively. All of which was completely terrible so I'm in no place to lecture you, especially when I had a history prior to the administration appointment of bullying people into supporting my horrible policies.

Sounds like a few insane people in the jail asylum walking in circles ... the good factory and the one's walking counter clockwise the bad factory.

Wildo7 · 11-05-2008, 09:23 PM

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Sounds like a few insane people in the jail asylum walking in circles ... the good factory and the one's walking counter clockwise the bad factory.

Who Powell? Yeah I agree. I just find it ironic that one of the men responsible for the worst foreign policy outlook in history has the audacity to write a letter like this.

The guy was basically snuck into his appointment during a time at which Bush had complete control. Which none of the people complaining about the Democrats now ever had a problem with and who also have the audacity to "warn" everyone about too much democrat power. Hmmm, more irony.

***DarrylS*** · 11-06-2008, 04:57 AM

Sounds like the typical rats from a sinking ship, when all else fails throw people under the bus.. maybe no one will notice what a screwup I have been..