Bolton on the BBC.

Interesting interview the other day with John Bolton on the world service. I have come to think that Bolton is some kind of mechanical puppet which is programmed and sent out to bark the same old crap over and over again. He kicks off with some trusty ‘anti-Europeanism’ by explaining how the impasse with Iran is our entire fault. But can the Interviewer really not know what the PNAC is? He also cuts off intelligent callers in favour of ranting nutters, perhaps fearing that Bolton’s batteries are about to run out? He even manages to connect the American political value of ‘popular sovereignty’ as being the driving ideal behind the neo-con’s effort at Imperialism.

He finishes by warning Hugo to stop hanging around with Mahmoud. Between the two I squarely back Hugo, as a military man he would kick seven shades out of Bolton.
This experience of watching the US piss all over the UN in the last 10 years however has caused me to wonder if Frank Aitken’s idea for Ireland to vote with the US on everything since the 50’s has brought us to the point where we let them pass their Imperial army and prospective torture victims through the country. We started with noble intentions to diffuse cold war hostility and wind up with a Foreign Policy driven by the morals of Alfred Doolittle:

“don’t have any, can’t afford em’ Guv”