Bolton: US 'helped precipitate' conditions for Bhutto's assassination

[seemslikeadream]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Bolton_US_helped_precipitate_conditions_for_1228.html

The US has seen its options for dealing with Pakistan crumble with Benazir Bhutto's assassination Thursday, and a former diplomat says American foreign policy decisions helped "precipitate" the former prime minister's death.

John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations, said it was a mistake to collaborate with Bhutto's "desire to get back into the game in Pakistan" and view her as an alternative to the country's current leader, Pervez Musharraf.

"We in effect helped -- helped -- precipitate this dynamic that led to her tragic assassination," Bolton said Thursday on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes. "It's hard to see how that was the road to success."

Bolton said the primary concern of the US needs to be the security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. With Bhutto's death plunging the country into chaos, there is now a "very grave danger" the weapons will fall under control of radical Islamist militants within the Pakistani military.

"What we have now is a prescription for chaos

[TwilightGardener]

1. You run with that nut, Blind Squirrel!

[davidinalameda]

2. we do need to make sure that the nukes don't end up in the wrong hands

unless people want the entire Indian sub-continent blown off the face of the earth

[EFerrari]

6. They supposedly have a rapid response program in place

in case Pakistan goes over a cliff.

That being said, THEY are administering that program.

[davidinalameda]

11. I know its THEY

but better the devil you know than the one you don't

I rather have our batshit crazy morons in charge of them rather than their batshit crazy morons

[EFerrari]

12. The funny thing is, I think our batshit crazy morons are less able

than theirs. Theirs have more to lose.

What does BushCo have to lose? Nothing. Those nukes are aimed at India.

[davidinalameda]

13. I know where those nukes are aimed

when you're dealing with probable fundamentalists of any stripe, they're more than willing to take innocents with them

you have fundamentalist Hindus in India who are willing to take a few of their fellow Hindus out in their quest to kill a whole lot of Muslims

but I don't think that the Bushies would let India get blown off the map

where would their buddies outsource to?

[babylonsister]

3. Whoa coming from him! nt

[seemslikeadream]

4. Watch out Condi

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3483252,00.html

Bolton , who was a leading hawk in the US administration and favored a tough stance against Iran, North Korea and Iraq, told the Der Spiegel weekly that Bush needed to rein in Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.



"(Bush) does not supervise her enough. That is a mistake," he was quoted as saying, adding that a moderate foreign policy was a threat to US security.

[Fovea]

8. There you go.

Showing Condi that famous Bolton charm.

And they have to get her a different chair at staff meetings to deal with the cinqueda sticking out between her shoulder blades.

[EFerrari]

5. Captain Obvious strikes again!

lol

[Selatius]

7. A broken clock is still right twice a day. n/t

[rodeodance]

9. umm.. The VP is not going to like your chattering away.

[suston96]

10. "We in effect helped....."? Who "we", big fella?

You been talkin to Axelrod over at Obama's campaign?

[laconicsax]

14. Looks like he's a member of the

'Blame America First" crowd.

[Adsos Letter]

15. Just wonderin'...

given that Pakistan has a large, well trained and equipped military,...if we go in to "secure those nukes"...what can of worms will that open? I guess I am wondering if we could actually be successful at it... :shrug: