Neo-cons to the rescue

John Bolton is rattling Israel's sabers, all but calling for them to make a military strike against Iran.

In a Washington Post op-ed in today's paper, he begins:

With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether to use military force against Tehran's nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.

Saying that the hope for a regime change as a result of their election seems lost now, for at least as long as it will take them to develop a nuclear weapons capability, he says:

Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. Israel is undoubtedly ratcheting forward its decision-making process. President Obama is almost certainly not.

The remainder of the article is dismissive of Obama's policy of diplomacy and the hinted possibility of ultimately accepting an Iranian "peaceful civil nuclear power program while publicly renouncing the objective of nuclear weapons."

Bolton, in his usual bull-in-the-china-shop bluster knows all the answers and scorns Obama for being naive and fooled by the lying Iranians.

It's still scary, even in retrospect, to think that this man once represented the U.S. at the U.N. He was george bush's perfect point man in a completely wrong-headed approach to diplomacy and international relations.

It's good that he is now confined to right-wing think tanks and op-ed pages.

Ralph