BOLTON: "TIME IS NOT ON OUR SIDE"

Things just got hotter in Florida. Had I known Bolton was down here,  I would have made my way to SoBe. Ah well. UPDATE: Wrong Miami. Lone Ranger advises it's Miami University in Oxford, Ohio ... not the liberal Univeristy of Miami in Miami, Florida. Uh, never mind. :)

" The greatest threats the United States faces in this decade are from Iran, North Korea and terrorists groups pursuing weapons of mass destruction", so said John Bolton.

"Today, we have the comparative luxury that there is no military power in the world — no combination of powers — that constitutes a real threat to the U.S.," Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told a crowd of about 200 at Miami University Tuesday night. ""But we do face in the form of these weapons of mass destruction a kind of terrorist instrument that while it possesses no military risk it can be used to hold hostage innocent civilian populations in the U.S. and our friends allies around the world."

Furthermore, he said, "Our future security and the security of our friends and allies, and indeed the entire civilized world depends on preventing the further proliferation of these weapons of mass destruction."

Bolton: WMDs greatest threat to U.S.
The Hamilton Journal News  The greatest threats the United States faces in this decade are from Iran, North Korea and terrorists groups pursuing weapons of mass destruction, according to John Bolton

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"Iraq is critically important in order to stop terrorism, but foreign policy is more than Iraq. History will look at this decade at Iran and North Korea as the great threats of the United States," he said.

Bolton said he opposed the idea of negotiating with either Iran or North Korea, believing nothing can be done diplomatically to stop either country from acquiring nuclear power.

"Time is not on our side," Bolton said of the hope of negotiating with North Korea.

Instead, he proposed pressuring North Korea through China and insisted reuniting North and South Korea as the ideal way to disarm Kim Jong-Il. But while he saw China ill at the prospect of North Korea with nuclear weapons, he said the Chinese also would be wary a reunited Korea would destabilize Northeast Asia.

"There is no way Kim Jong-Il will give up nuclear weapons," Bolton said. "It is his trump card."

Bolton also chastised the economic and social decline brought on during Jong-Il's tenure. He noted the average height and weight of a normal North Korean has significantly decreased in the time of Jong-Il has served leader of the country.

"North is a 17-million person prison camp," he said.

On Iran, Bolton saw an equally imminent threat due to its growing development in nuclear power. He spoke of having a hard time taking anything Iranian diplomats say at face value.

"It is fanciful to think that what they are doing in the nuclear field is a peaceful use as they say, 'Well, our oil and natural gas are running out.' We had the Department of Energy do a survey a couple years and estimate when Iran would run out of oil and natural gas.," Bolton said. "At current rate of production, Iran would run out in 350 to 400 years"

Comments

[LoneRanger]

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio ... not the liberal Univeristy of Miami in Miami, Florida.

[Pamela Geller]

Lone, thanks for clearing that up. I feel better

[clyde]

Miami U in Miami, Florida has as its president the idiotic, over-the-politically-correct-top Donna Shalala. She was formerly president of the U of Wisconsin, another hotbed of PC bullshit. Wisconsin was constantly in court defending indefensible "speech codes" under her reign.

[willyp1954]

I am SO BUMMED OUT! Miami is not quite walking distance, but I could be there in less than 2 hours! My in-laws would have been happy to die on the way home if we could have heard Bolton's presentation! He speaks the truth, and we never hear it on the evening news, only reading it here!