Why is this man smiling?
What’s wrong with this
guy, anyway? And how fast did we forget what we learned about him all
those neo-con years ago? John Bolton never met a war he didn’t love.
Vietnam? Well… he enlisted in the National Guard. That’s the slick
politician’s way of dodging the draft without seeming to. (See George W. Bush
for another example.)
By the time he got off
the Reserve kick line, he was well into conquering Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan,
Syria. And if you asked him, he’d probably answer “yes” to “Do you think
the US should go to war with … oh… China, India, Senegal, Spain, Venezuela,
Argentina, Cuba and New York City?”
Mister Regime Change
represented our country as United Nations Ambassador. He was Reagan’s
Assistant Attorney General and advocated against making reparations to Japanese
Americans rounded up and put in prison camps during WWII. He was W’s
recess appointment as UN Ambassador because even the dolt Bush knew he’d never
get confirmed.
He was cheerleader for
Rehnquist, for Scalia and for Saddam Hussein’s non-existent “weapons of mass
destruction.” (Colin Powell was a sucker on that issue. Bolton knew the
truth and lied.)
How is this schmuck
still in public life? Easy answer: friends in high places. He’s even too much for trump who seems
genuinely opposed to a shooting war with Iran despite tweets to the contrary
this morning. That makes trump “the adult in the White House,” says Maureen
Dowd in the New York Times.
So, there’s a lot of
space between W and trump’s administrations. What was John-boy doing while
planning his next act? Well… he was a visiting obsessor for the “think
tank” American Enterprise Institute whose thinking stops at your bank account.
And he was a Fox News
Contributor … the qualifications for which are … are… whomever Rupert Murdoch
believes will bolster revenue ratings at a particular time point.
It didn’t work out.
Bolton was too nuts even for the Fox viewers. Too intellectual. Plus that funny
mustache looked comical.
Bolton is a graduate of
Yale. That deflates the value of a Yale bachelor’s degree for thousands
who followed. He also is a graduate of Yale Law School. If your attorney
has a Yale JD degree, you might want to find someone from a better school. Like University of Phoenix or Ace Technical
School.
Aside: JD means juris
doctor. But it’s not a real doctorate. Lawyers with real doctorates are
Ll.Ds. JDs are people with a second bachelors’ degree. And Ll. Ds are honorary
in many cases. They are awarded to Very Serious Lawyers usually long past their
prime and who held an endowed professorial chair which can be a no-show job.
SHRAPNEL:
--Game of Thrones.
I know nothing about it. But I don’t want to be the only poster in the
known universe who hasn’t mentioned it.
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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here: wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2019
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