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| 2008-02-18 |
 By Brian UrquhartBrian Urquhart, former Undersecretary-General of the United Nations, reviews Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad by John Bolton for the New York Review of Books. It's every bit as fair and objective as you might expect. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 Scanning down thru the 'review', I see it is mostly a review of the Bush years from the viewpoint of The New York Times. Shocking, I know. But there are occasional references to something that Bolton wrote, so I guess that qualifies it as a 'book review'. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-02-18 06:45 |
| #1 "Foreigners, even some supposed allies, cannot be trusted, and the hostile ones (North Korea, Iran, the enemies of Israel, and others) will always cheat, will never abide by an agreement, and only understand pressure and force. With such people there should be only sticks and hard words, no carrots, no rewards for good behavior, and no prolonged nego-tiations. Force always remains an option. The High Minded, Liberals, multilateralists, and most Democrats are, in their own way, almost as destructive as hostile foreigners." Urquart mocks all of these as anachronistic. Yet all of them are demonstrably, provably true. The first two apply as much now as they did in the times of the Roman-era barbarians, the original Muslim hordes conquering North Africa, the Vikings, the Nazis in the 1930's, etc. All the talking, singing, philosophizing, and mocking puppets in the world can't change this, and it is a conceit (in every meaning of the word) for the left to believe that they are so smart and that their way is so superior that they can alter the autocratic mindset so easily. Dictators do not respond to diplomacy. It's that simple. And they literally never will; the memeset that defines their actions will not permit that to happen. As far as the left being a domestically positioned enemy, I would refer anyone to what Wretchard writes about the three-way war. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-02-18 06:44 |